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1. "Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage."

George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"

Quotations about: Life and Death

2. "Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

3. "It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly."

John Osborne, "Tom Jones"

Quotations about: Human

4. "Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, affairs of state - everything is a pretext for a good dinner."

Jean Anouilh, "Cécile"

Quotations about: History and Nations

5. "An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."

Dylan Thomas

6. "Drunkenness [...] is temporary suicide."

Bertrand Russell, "The Conquest of Happiness"

7. "To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another."

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), "Epistolae ex Ponto"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

8. "I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient."

Cyra McFadden

9. "The best number for a dinner party is two - myself and a dam' good head waiter."

Nubar Gulbenkian

Quotations about: Various

10. "Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit."

Aldous Huxley, "Eyeless in Gaza"

Quotations about: Human -:- Various

11. "My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more."

Walter Matthau

Quotations about: Richness and Money

12. "When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners."

Zora Neale Hurston, "Moses Man of the Mountain"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

13. "Disease is a vital expression of the human organism."

Georg Groddeck, "The Book of the It"

14. "Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."

Ingmar Bergman

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Time and Passing

15. "What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience -:- Woman and Man

16. "Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage."

Talmud, (Babylonian)

Quotations about: Anger

17. "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."

Adelle Davis

Quotations about: Various

18. "Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good."

Alice May Brock

Quotations about: Various

19. "Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."

Fran Lebowitz

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

20. "Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."

Samuel Goldwyn

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21. "Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking."

Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw"

22. "I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on."

Oscar Levant

Quotations about: Envy

23. "A hospital is no place to be sick."

Samuel Goldwyn

24. "Beware of the young doctor and the old barber."

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Youth and Age

25. "Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine."

Polish proverb

26. "One drink is just right; two is too many; three are too few."

Spanish proverb

27. "Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Nature and Animals -:- Time and Passing

28. "Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork."

English proverb

29. "We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

Marcel Proust

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

30. "Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering."

Francois Rabelais

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Pain and Tears

31. "When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."

Pierre Corneille, "Le Cid"

32. "Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can cure the patient with food."

Hippocrates

33. "No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach."

William Cowper

Quotations about: Patriotism

34. "Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair."

Dorothy Parker

Quotations about: Richness and Money

35. "The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea."

Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

36. "Having good health is very different from only being not sick."

Seneca the Younger

37. "Food is an important part of a balanced diet."

Fran Lebowitz

38. "A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison."

Francis Bacon

39. "Dieting is a system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer."

Jan Murray

40. "The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Quotations about: Happiness

41. "In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."

Henri-Frederic Amiel

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

42. "All diseases run into one: old age."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations about: Youth and Age

43. "The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books."

T. E. Lawrence

44. "Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."

St. Thomas Aquinas

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

45. "One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man."

George Fordyce

46. "It is more important to know what kind of patient has the disease than what kind of disease the patient has."

Sir William Osler

47. "The most dangerous food is wedding cake."

James Thurber

Quotations about: Marriage

48. "There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time."

Peg Bracken

49. "First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

50. "You eat everyday, you sleep everyday, your body was made to exercise everyday."

Jack LaLanne

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