Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine.
One drink is just right; two is too many; three are too few.
Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.
Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering.
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can cure the patient with food.
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
Having good health is very different from only being not sick.
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.
Dieting is a system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
All diseases run into one: old age.
The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
You eat everyday, you sleep everyday, your body was made to exercise everyday.
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.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
Wine is "light held together by moisture."
Oh, the powers of Nature! She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing.
Physicians are like Kings - They brook no contradiction.
Diseases are the price of ill pleasures.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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.
A pessimist is someone who looks at the land of milk and honey and sees only calories and cholesterol.
A man has reached middle age when he is cautioned to slow down by his doctor instead of by the police.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbours.
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
A seafood diet is the best: whenever you see food, eat it.
Your waistline is your lifeline.
The only exercise I ever take is walking up hospital stairs to visit friends who've damaged themselves by taking exercise.
Every physician almost hath his favorite disease.
If wine is fine, everything is fine, and if it's bad, never mind, as long as it is wine.
A paranoid-schizophrenic is a guy who just found out what's going on.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats about twice as much as nature requires.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
