Health Quotes

"Health consists with temperance alone." Alexander Pope

"I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream." Howard Schultz

"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

"Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings." Publilius Syrus

"I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age." Cat Cora

"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned." Judith Viorst

"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat." Albert Einstein

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

"I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s." Bob Barker

"After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money." Helen Gurley Brown

"As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options." Andrew Weil

"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true." Audrey Hepburn

"The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren." Kay Hagan

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." Ingrid Bergman

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost." Gustave Flaubert

"Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed." Ezra Taft Benson

"I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade." Gail Collins

"I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that." Ashton Kutcher

"Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time." Daniel Kahneman

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

"Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness." Louise Hart

"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so." Tryon Edwards

"Happiness lies first of all in health." George William Curtis

"A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience." Sydney Smith

"The groundwork of all happiness is health." Leigh Hunt

"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

"The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick." P. T. Barnum

"To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless." Stefan Sagmeister

"I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union." Michael Moore

"My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life." Paul Cezanne