Health Quotes

"Cynicism is humor in ill health"

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness"

"I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions"

John Locke, Philosopher

"Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"

Adam Smith, Economist

"It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death"

Buddha, Leader

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him"

Buddha, Leader

"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear"

Buddha, Leader

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship"

Buddha, Leader

"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"A woman's health is her capital"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"Health is certainly extremely important, and we've done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it's not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay"

Sallust, Historian

"My health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived"

Steven Adler, Musician

"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"Writing is hard work and bad for the health"

E. B. White, Writer

"From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives"

John Hutton, Educator

"We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards"

John Hutton, Educator

"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label"

Barack Obama, President

"But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that"

Barack Obama, President

"And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it"

Barack Obama, President

"After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land"

Barack Obama, President

"In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health"

Michael Servetus, Scientist

"I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

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