Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.
There's this narrative that is entrenched in some of the professions that there's this mysterious thing called 'socioeconomic status' that is immutably correlated with health. And it isn't.
Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
Health and mony goe farre. [Health and money go far.]
Health without money is halfe an ague.
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
You breathe better when you're rich.
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
