George Santayana Quotes

When I was growing up they used to say, "Robin, drugs can kill you." Now that I'm 58 my doctor's telling me, "Robin, you need drugs to live." I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer.

Dr. Jasper didn't care if they got their checkups, their medications.

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow.

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

Health care has not so much slowed the ageing process as much as it has slowed the dying process.

Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.

Medical attention is medical attention, whether it's for your elbow or for your teeth or for your brain. And it's important.

I'm a strong believer in modern medicine. I think it has its use in society. I think it adds longevity to our life expectancy.

I was not active in films for three years owing to some treatments I was undergoing.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

I credit chiropractic care for maintaining my health to keep up the pace of my career.

I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70.

Perfect health means no weakness anywhere, that is no weakness should remain in the body, or in the mind, or in the relationship between the body and the mind.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

I lovingly do everything I can to assist my body in maintaining perfect health

There exists in every person a place that is free from disease, that never feels pain, that cannot age or die. When you go to this place, limitations which all of us accept, cease to exist. They are not even entertained as a possibility. This is the place called perfect health.

Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.

Here's what I can assure you, we are going to have a better plan, much better health care, much better service treatment, a plan where you can have access to the doctor that you want and the plan that you want.

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.

A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be.

Often it is fatal to live too long.