The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

-Oscar Wilde

Oh, the blues ain’t nothing but a good woman feeling bad.

-Georgia White

When an elderly woman was asked why she was standing in line to buy stamps from a teller when she could have used a stamp machine she replied: The machine won’t ask me about my arthritis!

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey.

-Marcel Proust

For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none, If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.

-Mother Goose

The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.

-Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

-Charles Lamb

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

-Ben Jonson

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.

-Louis Dudek

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

The… patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don’t take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. ~Quentin Regestein

If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. ~Lord Chesterfield

Poor health is not caused by something you don’t have; it’s caused by disturbing something that you already have. Healthy is not something that you need to get, it’s something you have already if you don’t disturb it. ~Dean Ornish

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain

If I’d known I was going to live so long, I’d have taken better care of myself. ~Leon Eldred

The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they’ll ease
Your will they’ll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
~ Wayne Fields

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. ~John Steinbeck