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On Health

Different people have different views about health. Forget the quintessential, clichéd “health is wealth”. The following are some lines culled from the mouths of some famous people who discussed about health.





"To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals."
Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, scientist and philosopher.

"The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best."
Thomas Jefferson, Third president of the United States.

"It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French writer.

"Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet.

"A feeble body weakens the mind."
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Swiss political philosopher and essayist.

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
Mark Twain, U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.

“Animals are my friends...and I don’t eat my friends.”
George Bernard Shaw, writer

“Forbear, mortals, to pollute your bodies with the flesh of animals. There is corn; there are the apples that bear down the branches by their weight; and there are the grapes, nuts, and vegetables. These shall be our food.”
Pythagoras, Greek philosopher

“If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.”
John Locke, English Philosopher

“Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.”
Marcel Proust, French Novelist

Sources:
http://www.rxpop.com/quotes.asp
http://www.allanstime.com/Health/civil_diet.htm
http://www.quotegarden.com/health.html