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I take it for granted that every Christian that is in health is up early in the morning; for it is much more reasonable to suppose a person up early because he is a Christian than becausehe is a labourerora tradesmanora servant or has business that wants him.

—Law,William

   Aunt Sadie†so much disliked hearing about health that people often took her for a Christian Scientist, which, indeed, she might have become had she not disliked hearing about religion even more.

—Mitford, Nancy Freeman

Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law.

—Synge,John Millington

Sir Patrick died that nightöjust as the company rose to drink his health with three cheers, he fell down in a sort of fit, and was carried offöthey sat it out, and were surprised, on enquiry, in the morning, to find it was all over with poor Sir Patrick.

—Edgeworth, Maria

The exercise of singing isdelightful tonatureandgood to preserve the health of Man.

—Byrd,William

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so. And for certain the one is a great deal better for the health.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

Health and an able body are two jewels.

—Fo, Dario

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain.

—Goldsmith, Oliver

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

—Connolly, Cyril Vernon

Salud, Dinero, Amor†yTiempo. Health,Wealth, Love†and Time to enjoy them.

—Anonymous

I have been young, and now am not too old; And I have seen the righteous forsaken, His health, his honour and his quality taken. This is not what we were formerly told.

—Blunden, Edmund Charles

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work, for man to mend.

—Dryden,John

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

—Trillin, Calvin Marshall

   I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor mortis conturbat me.

—Dumas, Alexandre, pe'  re

Wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wiltthou loveher, comfort her, honour, and keep her, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?

—Book of Common Prayer

Wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honour and keep him, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto him, so long as 142 ye both shall live?

—Book of Common Prayer

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.

—Book of Common Prayer

Golf is in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotesself-restraint and affordsa chanceto play the man and act the gentleman.

—Taft,William Howard

Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

—Plato

We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts.We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done. And we have done those things which we ought not to have done. And there is no health in us.

—Book of Common Prayer

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Only do always in health what you have often promised to do when you are sick.

—Sigismund

That it is at least as difficult to staya moral infection as a physical one; that such a disease will spread with the malignityand rapidity of the Plague; that the contagion, when it has once made head, will spare no pursuit or condition, but will lay hold on people in the soundest health, and become developed inthe most unlikely constitutions; is a fact as firmlyestablished by experience as that we human creatures breathe an atmosphere.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

The preservation of health is a duty.Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

—Spencer, Herbert

   The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.

—Peck, M(organ) Scott

As to abuseöI thrive on it. Abuse, heartyabuse, is a tonic to all save men of indifferent health.

—Douglas, (George) Norman

God be merciful untous, and blessus; and causehis face to shine upon us; Selah. That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations. Let the peoplepraisethee,OGod; let all thepeople praisethee.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me.

—Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh

Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Of simple beautyand rustic health.

—Whittier,John Greenleaf

But Jesus, when you don't have any money the problem is food.When you have money, it's sex.When you have both it's health, you worryabout getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

—Donleavy,J(ames) P(atrick)