Grouped into 120 alphabetized categories (from “Achievement” to “Mind and Body” to “Young and Old”), this collection of more than 2,000 highly enlightening, inspiring and often humorous quotations covers all aspects of health—be it mental, physical, spiritual or emotional health. Let the great minds of the ages stimulate your well-being with their words of wellness.
Excerpts from Words of Wellness
DRINKING
It’s all right to drink like a fish—if you drink what a fish drinks. —Mary Pettibone Poole
I don’t drink. I don’t like it. It makes me feel good. —Oscar Levant
One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. —Nancy Astor
We drink to one another’s healths and spoil our own. —Jerome K. Jerome
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest. —C.C. Colton
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. —Thomas Fuller
Long quaffing maketh a short life. —John Lyly
Drink not the third glass—which thou can’st not tame when once it is within thee. —George Herbert
What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking. —Lord Byron
Drink injures a man externally, internally, and eternally. —Anonymous
Drinking a little too much is drinking a great deal too much. —German Proverb
Drunkenness is the ruin of reason. It is premature old age. It is temporary death. —St. Basil
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it’s compounding a felony. —Robert Benchley
One swallow doesn’t make a summer but too many swallows make a fall. —G.D. Prentice
A drunkard is like a whiskey bottle, all neck and belly and no head. —Austin O’Malley
Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. —Horace Greeley
Drinking makes holes in your pocket. —Mexican Proverb
One martini is all right, two is too many, three is not enough. —James Thurber
The best cure for drunkenness is, when sober, to look at a drunken man. —Chinese Proverb
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity. —Seneca
But I’m not so think as you drunk I am. —John Collings Squire
The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely. —Confucius
If the husband drinks, half the house is afire; if the wife drinks, the whole house. —Russian Proverb
EATING/DIET
Short supper; long life. —Serbian Proverb
Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper. —Jane E. Brody
Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able. —Ovid
Feed by measure, and defy the physician. —John Heywood
One should eat to live; not live to eat. —Cicero
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. —Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. —Mark Twain
If it grows, eat it. If it doesn’t grow, don’t eat it. —Louise L. Hay
The more natural the food you eat, the more radiant health you will enjoy. —Patricia Bragg
Eat a variety of foods; maintain a desirable weight; avoid too much fat; eat foods with adequate starch and fiber; avoid too much sugar and sodium; and, if you drink alcohol, drink in moderation. —Surgeon General of the United States, 1989.
Everything you eat affects you profoundly. —Chinese Proverb
If you are building a thirty-story building and you use worm-eaten wood for the frame, inferior structural supports, and other fourth-rate, low-grade materials, what kind of finished product do you think you will wind up with? No need to answer. So if you’re building a human body and the material that will become your blood, bones, skin, organs—indeed, every cell of your body—is inferior and of poor quality, what kind of body do you think you will wind up with? No need to answer. —Harvey Diamond
To keep from gaining weight, don’t eat late. —Jeanette Sutton
Nature does her best to teach us. The more we overeat, the harder she makes it for us to get close to the table. —Earl Wilson
Who eats of but one dish never needs a physician. —Italian Proverb
Man is what he eats. —L.A. Feuerbach
Leave thy drugs in the chemist’s pot if thou can’t heal the patient with food. —Hippocrates
Food is man’s only truly reliable medicine and foods do cure, just the same as wrong foods and drinks may kill us. —Bernard Jensen
Diet cures more than doctors. —A.B. Cheales
The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet. —Percy Bysshe Shelley
Now learn what and how great benefits a temperate diet will bring. In the first place you enjoy good health. —Horace
Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet. —Dan Bennett
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother. —George Herbert
A little with quiet is the only diet. —Old Proverb