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- I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), "A Modest Proposal"
- When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.
- J.P. Donleavy
- A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to James Madison, 1787
- I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).
- Phyllis Schafly
- Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are sick, you shouldn't take it.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts twenty four hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all.
- Sidney Madwed
- No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
- C. C. Colton
- Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
- Author Unknown
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