“The labour we delight in physics pain.”
William Shakespeare

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.
“The labour we delight in physics pain.”
William Shakespeare
“Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!”
Edward Young
“Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.”
Thomas Dekker
“Kitchen physic is the best physic.”
George Herbert
“Our body is like a clock; if one wheel be amiss, all the rest are disordered.”
Robert Burton
“Age will not be defied.”
Francis Bacon
“Exercise is labour without weariness.”
Samuel Johnson
“The best of all medicines is resting and fasting.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.”
John Wesley
“Eat an apple on going to bed, and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread.”
Welsh Proverb
“He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.”
Chinese Proverb
“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.”
Irish Proverb
“The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.”
Herbert Spencer
“I sing the body electric.”
Walt Whitman
“Unnecessary noise is the most cruel absence of care which can be inflicted either on sick or well.”
Florence Nightingale
“The young physician starts life with twenty drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for twenty diseases.”
William Osler
“Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise of health.”
James Thomson
“Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?”
The Bible (Jeremiah 8:22)
“And healed them that had need of healing.”
The Bible (Luke 9:11)
“The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.”
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach 38:4)
“And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 7:15)
“O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.”
The Bible (Psalm 30:2)
“The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.”
The Bible (Mark 2:27)
“The gladness of the heart is the life of man, and the joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.”
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach 30:22)