“He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.”
Benjamin Franklin

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · HEALTH
Read the best health quotes on wellness, healing and healthy living from Hippocrates, Charaka, Thiruvalluvar, Gandhi, William Osler and more. Words to inspire a healthier life.
“He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.”
Joseph Addison
“Who shall decide when doctors disagree?”
Alexander Pope
“Cure the disease and kill the patient.”
Francis Bacon
“It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal.”
William Shakespeare
“Give about two hours every day to exercise, for health must not be sacrificed to learning.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
Jane Austen
“Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Health is the first muse.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nature is but another name for health.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The very first canon of nursing is this: to keep the air he breathes as pure as the external air, without chilling him.”
Florence Nightingale
“Health is not only to be well, but to be able to use well every power we have.”
Florence Nightingale
“The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.”
William Osler
“The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.”
William Osler
“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”
William Osler
“Laughter is the best medicine.”
Traditional Proverb
“The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.”
The Bible (Psalm 41:3)
“Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed.”
The Bible (Psalm 6:2)
“He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
The Bible (Psalm 107:20)
“I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee.”
The Bible (2 Kings 20:5)
“A time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 3:3)
“Healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.”
The Bible (Matthew 4:23)
“Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.”
The Bible (Matthew 8:17)
“Physician, heal thyself.”
The Bible (Luke 4:23)
“And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.”
The Bible (Revelation 22:2)