Health Preservation Quotes

One learns the states of the human body with respect to what is healthy and what deviates from it, for the purpose of preserving health when it already exists and restoring it when it has been lost.

We know, without question, especially during a pandemic, we have to preserve people's rights to be healthy and safe but also to exercise their fundamental right to vote and I think all of us should be very clear and very loud about that.

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Health can be squandered, but not stored up.

The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do it without destroying the health of the mind.

I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.

Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have.

I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength.

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

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

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.

It's easier and more cost effective to maintain good health, than to regain it once it's lost.

Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.

The Spaniards generally call it Tobacco. The leaves thereof being dried and brought into powder, they use to take the fume or smoke thereof, by sucking it thorough pipes made of clay, into their stomach and head; from whence it purgeth superfluous phlegm and other gross humours, and openeth all the pores and passages of the body: by which means the use thereof not only preserveth the body from obstructions, but also … in short time breaketh them; whereby their bodies are notably preserved in health, and know not many grievous diseases, wherewithall we in England are often times afflicted.

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

Laws to protect 'public health' are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever.

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. ... The aim of medicine is surely not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard them from the consequences of their vices.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.