- A dry cough is the trumpeter of death.
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- A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
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- After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile.
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- After melon wine is a felon.
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- After pear, wine or the priest.
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- After stuffing pears within, drink old wine until they swim.
- Spanish
- Against diseases known, the strongest fence
Is the defensive virtue, abstinence. - Franklin
- Air coming in at a window is as bad as a cross-bow shot.
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- Always rise from the table with an appetite and you will never sit down without one.
- William Penn
- As he who has health is young, so he who owes nothing is rich.
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- Be old betimes that thou mayest long be so.
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- Better lose a supper than have a hundred physicians.
- Spanish
- By the side of sickness health becomes sweet.
- Welsh
- Cover your head by day as much as you will, by night as much as you can.
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- Don’t stop the way of a bull or of a current of air.
- Spanish
- Good health is above wealth.
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- Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
- Spectator
- Health and understanding are the two great blessings of life.
- Greek
- Health is happiness.
- *
- Health is the vital principle of bliss.
- Thomson
- He that sits with his back to a draft sits with his face to a coffin.
- Spanish
- He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.
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- He that wants health wants everything.
- French
- He that would be healthy must eat temperately and sup early.
- Spanish
- He that would be healthy must wear his winter clothes in summer.
- Spanish
- He who has not health has nothing.
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- He who is well has half won the battle.
- Portuguese
- He who never was sick dies the first.
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- Health and cheerfulness make beauty, finery and cosmetics cost many a lie.
- Spanish
- Health consists with temperance alone.
- Pope
- Health dwells with the peasant.
- German
- Health is better than wealth.
- Turkish
- Health is great riches
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- Health is not valued till sickness comes.
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- Health is the most admirable manifestation of right living.
- Humboldt
- Health without money is a half malady.
- Italian
- If you would be healthy be wise betimes.
- Portuguese
- Keep your feet dry and your head cool and for the rest live like a beast.
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- Let him cool in the skin he sat in.
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- Not to wish to recover is a mortal symptom.
- Spanish
- Of the malady a man fears, he dies.
- Spanish
- Spare diet and no trouble keep a man in good health.
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- Strong folks have strong maladies.
- German
- Study sickness while you are well.
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- There are no riches like health.
- *
- Three things kill a man; a scorching sun, suppers and cares.
- Spanish
- To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine makes a man live to ninety-nine.
- French
- To rise at six, eat at ten, sup at six, go to bed at ten makes a man live years ten times ten.
- French
- To the well man every day is a feast day.
- Turkish
- We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
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- When you are well keep as you are.
- French
- Without health life is not life, life is lifeless.
- Greek



