Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

 —Erma Bombeck

Be careful when reading health books; you may die of a misprint.

—Mark Twain

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

—Red Foxx

A hospital is no place to be sick.

—Samuel Goldwyn

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

 —Oprah Winfrey

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

 —Thich Nhat Hanh

Health is worth more than learning.

 —Thomas Jefferson

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

 —Doug Larson

As a people, we have become obsessed with health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.

 —Lewis Thomas

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

—Leo Tolstoy

I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open you collar and throws you hair into your eyes, is really one of life’s sensational pleasures.

 —Robert Benchley

A bad cold wouldn’t be so annoying if it weren’t for the advice of our friends.

 —Kin Hubbard

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

 —John Mortimer