When the head aches, all the body is the worse. – English Proverb
The doctor of the future will give no medicines, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the causes and prevention of disease. – Thomas Edison
When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Life has been reduced to getting food out of cans. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease. – Edward Jenner
There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. – Charles Dickens
You are as important to your health as it is to you. – Terri Guillemets
Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own Affairs than we. – Michel de Montaigne, “Of Experience,” translated from French by Charles Cotton
Bacteria keep us from heaven and put us there. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. – Joseph Addison
It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a sickness. – DeForest Clinton Jarvis
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. – Marcus Valerius Martial
Every symptom has a story to tell about your life. A fascinating story, that can reveal the complex links between your body, mind, emotions and spirit. – Kristina Turner, The Self-Healing Cookbook, 2002, originally published 1987
There are some remedies worse than the disease. – Publilius Syrus
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. РJean Baptiste Moli̬re, Le Malade Imaginaire
The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there. РJean Baptiste Moli̬re
Illness tells us what we are. – Italian saying
The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need. – Norman Cousins
The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind. – Hazrat Khan
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. – Denis Diderot
