Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts

Sunday, December 05, 2021

Post #3101

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet and Doctor Merryman.
—Jonathan Swift

Sunday, March 21, 2021

Post #3064

When traveling abroad or taking a long journey, observe these rules -

1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise. 

2. Do not think about frugality your health is worth more than it can cost. 

3. Do not continue any day's journey to fatigue.

4. Take now and then a day's rest. 

5. Get a smart sea sickness if you can. 

6. Cast away all anxiety and keep your mind easy. 

7. This last direction is the principal with an unquiet mind neither exercise nor diet nor physic can be of much use.

—Samuel Johnson


Monday, August 26, 2019

Post #2901

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves; the impatience, the crossness, the faultfinding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.
―Henry Ward Beecher

Friday, May 10, 2019

Post #2825

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?
—Samuel Johnson

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Post #2542

Health is the Soul that animates all Enjoyments of Life, which fade and are tasteless, if not dead, without it.
—Sir William Temple

Friday, July 14, 2017

Post #2380

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.
—Joseph Addison

Monday, July 03, 2017

Post #2371

He that is well does not know how rich he is.
Better a healthy beggar, than a sick king.
—German Proverb

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Post #2189

Temperance and toil are the two real physicians of mankind.
—Unknown

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Post #1987

Fasting is, at times, the best medicine; the means of removing incipient disease, and restoring to the body its usual healthful sensations. Howard and Franklin often fasted one day in the week; and Bonaparte, when his system was unstrung, omitted his wonted meal, and took exercise on horseback, as his only remedies.
—Unknown

Monday, December 21, 2015

Post #1971

Medicine has been defined to be the art or science of amusing a sick man with frivolous speculations about his disorder, and of tampering ingeniously, till nature either kills or cures him.
—Anonymous

Friday, August 14, 2015

Post #1880

In health there is liberty. Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Post #1843

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.
— Samuel Johnson

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Post #1842

There is this difference between those two temporal blessings—health and money: Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied: and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
—Charles Caleb Colton

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Post #1799

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
—John Adams

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Post #1794

To be active is the primary vocation of man.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thursday, January 08, 2015

Post #1724

Health and good humor are to the human body like sunshine to vegetation.
—Jean Baptiste Massillon

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Post #1668

Shut the door on the sun and you will open it to the doctor.
—Seneca

Friday, August 29, 2014

Post #1630

Health is the greatest gift, contentedness the best riches.
—Dhammapada

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Post #1572

Health is the greatest of all possessions, and it is a maxim with me, that a hale cobbler is a better man than a sick king.
—Isaac Bickerstaffe

Friday, April 11, 2014

Post #1520

Do not think about frugality ; your health is worth more than it can cost.
—Samuel Johnson

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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