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Category: Health and Alcohol

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1. "If you take your kids too seriously, they'll drive you to drinking. If you don't take them seriously enough, you'll drive them to drinking."

Stephen Covington

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

2. "The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

3. "Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell."

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

4. "Wine is "light held together by moisture.""

Galileo Galilei

5. "Oh, the powers of Nature! She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing."

Benvenuto Cellini

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

6. "Physicians are like Kings - They brook no contradiction."

John Webster

7. "Diseases are the price of ill pleasures."

Thomas Fuller

8. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

English proverb

Quotations about: Various

9. "Cancer is so limited, It cannot corrode faith, It cannot shatter hope, It cannot kill friendships, It cannot cripple love, It cannot destroy peace, It cannot silence courage, It cannot suppress memories, It cannot conquer the spirit."

Anon.

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

10. "A pessimist is someone who looks at the land of milk and honey and sees only calories and cholesterol."

Anon.

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

11. "A man has reached middle age when he is cautioned to slow down by his doctor instead of by the police."

Anon.

Quotations about: Youth and Age

12. "Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbours."

Quentin Crisp, "The Naked Civil Servant"

13. "Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents."

Peter Mere Latham

14. "When the wine goes in, strange things come out."

Friedrich von Schiller, "Wallenstein"

15. "A seafood diet is the best: whenever you see food, eat it."

Anon.

16. "Your waistline is your lifeline."

Jack LaLanne

Quotations about: Various

17. "The only exercise I ever take is walking up hospital stairs to visit friends who've damaged themselves by taking exercise."

Stormont Mancroft, "A Chinaman in My Bath"

18. "Every physician almost hath his favorite disease."

Henry Fielding

19. "If wine is fine, everything is fine, and if it's bad, never mind, as long as it is wine."

Julián Hernández

20. "A paranoid-schizophrenic is a guy who just found out what's going on."

William S. Burroughs

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

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21. "In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats about twice as much as nature requires."

Benjamin Franklin

22. "He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled."

Gene Fowler

23. "Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."

Sir William Osler

24. "Those who drink to drown their sorrows should be taught that sorrows know how to swim."

Ann Landers

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

25. "You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."

Dean Martin

26. "Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair."

R. D. Laing

27. "The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals."

Sir William Osler

Quotations about: Human

28. "A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts."

proverb

29. "Alcohol will preserve anything but a secret."

proverb

Quotations about: Trust

30. "A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco, wrapped in paper, fire at one end, fool at the other."

Anon.

31. "God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fee."

Benjamin Franklin

32. "What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober."

Kenneth Tynan

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

33. "No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "All Things Considered"

34. "I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark."

Henry Louis Mencken

35. "Hunger is the best sauce."

English proverb

36. "We drink one another's healths, and spoil our own."

Jerome K. Jerome

37. "The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife."

Cyril Connolly, "Unquiet Grave"

Quotations about: Marriage

38. "A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand."

English proverb

39. "Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body."

English proverb

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

40. "The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman."

Jonathan Swift

41. "Custard, n. A vile concoction produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

42. "Good wine is a necessity of life for me."

Thomas Jefferson

43. "First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me."

Steve Martin

44. "Many contemporary authors drink more than they write."

Maxim Gorky

45. "A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

46. "There is a physical weakness which stems from mental ability, and a mental weakness which comes from physical ability."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

47. "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."

Herbert George Wells

Quotations about: Human

48. "Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

49. "A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."

Jonathan Swift

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

50. "I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

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