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Quotations Regarding Health from Historical Figures
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- Health is worth more than learning. Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790
- Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. -- Benjamin Franklin
- I am dying with the help of too many physicians. -- Alexander the Great
- God heals, and the doctor takes the fee. -- Benjamin Franklin
- A doctor would promise life to a corpse if it could swallow the pills. -- Napoleon
- Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. -- Benjamin Franklin
- He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. -- Benjamin Franklin
- Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopeia. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
- The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. – Thomas Edison
- All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the challenge of science is to find it. – Philippus Theophrastrus Bombast that of Aureolus Paracelsus (1493-1541)
- All drugs are poisons, the benefit depends on the dosage. -- Philippus Theophrastrus Bombast that of Aureolus Paracelsus (1493-1541)
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