The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine. By Thomas Jefferson Health, Medical services, Medicine
If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well. By Ruth Carlisle Funny, Health
If you mean to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health, the better. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Health
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources—spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical. By Norman Cousins Health
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not. By Mark Twain Drink, Food, Funny, Health
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health, and health is all they get for it. By Mark Twain Drink, Food, Health, Healthy living
Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There’s no time for pettiness. By Margaretta (Floppy) Rockefeller Health, Life, Priorities, Wisdom, Wise
Health that mocks the doctor’s rules / Knowledge never learned of schools. By John Greenleaf Whittier Health
Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted. By Jean Paul Friedrich Richter Health, Rich, Sleep, Wise