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English speaking countries | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Folk Sayings, Famous Quotes or Proverbs on Sickness and Health
A
o After dinner rest a while; after supper walk a mile.
o An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
o Anger is short madness.
o All are not merry that dance lightly.
o All happiness is in the mind.
o Avoid a cure that is worse than the disease.
B
o "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." [Mark Twain]
o Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
o Better ten times ill than one time dead.
o The best surgeon is he that hath been hacked himself.
o A blind man would be glad to see.
C
o A change is as good as a rest.
o A clean hand wants no washing.
o Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
o Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.
o A crown's no cure for a headache.
o The cure is worse than the disease.
D
o Death is the poor man's best physician.
o A disease known is half cured.
o Doctors' faults are covered with earth and rich men's with money.
o Doctors make the worst patients.
o Don't treat the symptom, instead find the cause.
o Don't worry, be happy.
E
o Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
o Even a small thorn causes festering.
o Every disease is a physician.
o Every invalid is a doctor.
o Everyone feels his own wound first.
F
o Feed a cold and starve a fever.
o A few germs never hurt anyone.
o The first step to health is to know that we are sick.
o Fit as a fiddle (Meaning: One is very healthy).
o Fools never know when they are well.
G
o Good health is above wealth.
o A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
o A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.
o A good surgeon has an eagle's eye, a lion's heart and a lady's hand.
o Good cures and the physician takes the fee.
H
o Happiness depends on ourselves.
o Happiness is a state of mind.
o Happiness isn't a goal, it's a by-product.
o Happiness takes no account of time.
o Happy is as happy does.
o Happy is the person who learns from the misfortunes of others.
o "He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines." [Benjamin Franklin]
o He is happy that thinks himself so.
o He lives long, who lives well.
o He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.
o He who has health, has hope, and he who has hope, has everything.
o He who has never been sick dies of the first fit.
o "A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison." [Francis Bacon]
o Health is better than wealth.
o Health is not valued till sickness comes.
o "How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself." [Charles Lamb]
o Hope is life.
I
o "If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands." [John Locke]
o If it can't be cured, it must be endured.
o If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
o If you don't laugh, you'll cry.
o "An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease." [Jewish proverb]
o "It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wishe for medicines." [Thomas More]
o It's better to be happy than wise.
L
o Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone.
o Laughter is the best medicine.
o Life is short and full of blisters.
o Living in worry invites death in a hurry.
o "The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them." [The Old Testament]
o Look at the bright side. Or, Look on the bright side.
M
o "Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them." [Aldous Huxley, British writer]
o The more the merrier.
o Money cannot buy happiness.
N
o Nature, time, and patience are three great physicians.
o Never lie to your doctor.
o No rest for the weary.
o "Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it." [Benjamin Franklin]
O
o An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
o One doctor makes work for another.
o One thousand Americans stop smoking every day -- by dying.
o "The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." [Mark Twain]
P
o Pain is only weakness leaving the body.
o Physicians faults are covered with earth, and rich men's money.
o Prevention is better than cure.
o Problems don't seem so bad if you keep cheerfu.
R
o Rest is sweet when one has earned it.
o The remedy is often worse than the disease.
S
o Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite.
o Sea sickness is like dying several separate deaths.
o Sickness comes in haste and goes at leisure.
o A smile is worth a thousand words.
o Six hours of sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.
o "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." [Oscar Wilde]
o Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease.
o A sound mind in a sound body.
o Stop and smell the roses.
o Sweet things are bad for the teeth.
T
o Take life as it comes.o Time flies when you're having fun.
o Time cures all things.
o Time heals all wounds.
o Time is a great healer.
o Time works wonders.
o "There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood." [Charles Dickens]
o Two things prolong your life: a quiet heart and a loving wife.
V
Variety is the spice of life.
W
o Wealth is nothing without health.
o What cannot be cured must be endured.
o What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger.
o When the head aches, all the body is the worse.
o Worrying never changed anything.
Y
o A young doctor makes a churchyard full of humps.
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French speaking countries | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: French Proverbs, Famous Quotes and Folk Sayings on Sickness and Health
A
o "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." [Voltaire]
B
o in English translation (literally): Better to laugh than to weep.
- English equivalent: Laughter is the best medicine.
- French original: Mieux vaut rire que pleurer.
o in English translation (literally): Better to prevent than to cure.
- English equivalent: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- French original: Mieux vaut prevenir que guerir.
D
o A day is lost if one has not laughed.
o The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
o "Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful." [Denis Diderot]
G
o God heals, and the physician takes the fee.
o in English translation (literally): Going to bed with the hen and waking with the crow keeps the man from the grave.
- English equivalent: Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
- French original: Coucher de poule et lever de corbeau ecartent l'homme du tombeau.
H
o "The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure." [Jean-Jacques Rousseau]
o in English translation: Happiness is worth more than riches.
- French original: Contentement passe richesse.
o He that wants health wants all things.
o A healthy man is a successful man.
o in English translation (literally): Hope makes people stay alive.
- English equivalent: Where there's life, there's hope.
- French original: L'espoir fait vivre.
I
o If the doctor cures the sun sees it, but if he kills the earth hides it.
o "Illness is the most heeded of doctors; to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey." [Marcel Proust]
M
o in English translation (literally): Money doesn't make happiness.
- English equivalent: Money can't buy happiness.
- French original: L'argent ne fait pas le bonheur.
P
o "Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady." [ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld]
T
o There is a pinch of the madman in every great man.
o There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
W
o "Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia." [Napoleon I]
o What can't be cured, must be endured.
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German speaking countries | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: German Proverbs, Famous Quotes, or Folk Sayings on Sickness and Health
A
o in English translation: As you put yourself to bed, so you will lie.
- Meaning: Everyone makes his own fate.
- German original: Wie man sich bettet, so liegt man.
D
o A doctor and a boor know more than a doctor alone.
H
o A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away.
o in English translation: The healthy does not know how rich he is.
German original: Der gesunde weifb nicht, wie reich er ist.
I
o "If a man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill." [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
o "If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick." [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
M
o Medicines are not meat to live on.
N
o No doctor is better than three.
P
o People show their character by what they laugh at.
o Pray as if no work could help, and work as if no prayer could help.
T
o Two doctors are better than a learned one.
W
o "When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly." [Friedrich Nietzsche]
o in English translation: When I rest, I rust.
o German original: Rast ich, so rost ich.
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Spanish Speaking Countries | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Spanish Proverbs or Folk Sayings on Sickness and Health
A
o English equivalent: Anger is a short madness.
-Spanish original: La ira es locura, el tiempo que dura.
B
o The beginning of health is to know the disease.
C
o English equivalent: A change is as good as a rest.
- Spanish original: Con un cambio de actividad se renuevan las energias.
E
o Even a sick man shuns death.
o The earth hides as it takes, the physician's mistakes.
F
o Fall sick and you will see who is your friend and who not.
o The fear of women is the basis of good health.
o Folly is the most incurable of maladies.
o Fond of lawsuits, little wealth. Fond of doctors, little health.
o From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health.
G
o God cures and the doctor takes the fee.
H
o English equivalent: Health is better than wealth.
- La salud es la mayor riqueza.
I
o If you would live in health, be old early.
L
o English equivalent: Laughter is the best medicine.
- Spanish original: La risa es el mejor remedio.
o Love, pain and money cannot be kept secret; they soon betray themselves.
H
o Happy is the doctor who is called in at the decline of an illness.
o How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
N
o No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full.
o Not to wish to recover is a mortal symptom.
O
o Of the malady a man fears, he dies.
S
o Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
o English equivalent: Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease.
- Spanish original: El remedio puede ser peor que la enfermedad.
T
o There is no better surgeon than the one with many scars.
o English equivalent: Time heals all wounds.
-Spanish original: El tiempo lo cura todo.
o English equivalent: Two in distress makes sorrow less.
- Spanish original: Mal de muchos consuelo de tontos.
W
o English equivalent: We're all a little crazy in one way or another.
- Spanish original: De cuerdo y loco todos tenemos un poco.
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Around the World | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: The following list was taken from the book, "Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages" classified by subject, arranged alphabetically, compiled by Robert Christy (New York: Putnam's Sons, 1887).
DOCTOR (PHYSICIAN).
1. A broken apothecary a new doctor.
2. A disobedient patient makes an unfeeling
physician. Syrus,
3. A doctor is one who kills you to-day to pre-
vent you from dying to-morrow. Punch.
4. A doctor's child dies not from disease but
from medicine. Tamil.
5. A half doctor near is better than a whole one
far away. Ger.
6. A loquacious doctor is successful. Tamil
7. A lucky physician is better than a learned
one. Ger.
8. A multitude of physicians have destroyed me.
{Emperor Adrian directed these words to be
inscribed on his tomb.)
9. A new doctor, a new grave digger. Ger.
10. A physician is a man who pours drugs of
which he knows little into a body of which he knows
less. Voltaire.
11. A physician is an angel when employed, but a
devil when one must pay him. Ger.
12. A physician is but a consoler of the mind.
Petronius Arbiter.
13. A wise physician is more than armies to the
public weal. Pope.
14. A wise physician never despises a distemper
however inconsiderable. Fielding.
15. A young physician should have three graveyards. Ger.
16. An honest physician leaves his patient when
he can no longer contribute to his health. Temple.
17. An ignorant doctor is no better than a murderer. Chinese.
18. Better wait on the cook than the doctor.
19. Bleed him, purge him and if he dies bury him.
Sp., Dutch.
20. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death
will seize the doctor too. Shaks.
21. Do not dwell in a city whose governor is a
physician. Hebrew.
22. Each physician thinks his pills the best. Ger.
23. Every man is a fool or a physician at forty.
24. Every one ought to be his own physician.
M. Greek.
25. Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
26. God healeth and the physician hath the
thanks.
27. God is the restorer of health and the physician
puts the fee in his pocket. Ital.
28. He who has suffered is the physician. M. Greek.
29. Head cool, feet warm, make the doctor poor.
Ger.
30. Herring in the land, the doctor at a stand.
Dutch.
31. Honor a physician before thou hast need of
him.
32. Hussars pray for war and the doctors for
fever. Ger.
33. I die by the help of too many physicians.
Alexander the Great
34. If doctors fail thee be these. three thy doctors:
rest, cheerfulness and moderate diet. Latin.
35. If the doctor cures the sun sees it, but if he
kills the earth hides it. Scotch.
36. If you have a friend who is a physician send
him to the house of your enemy. For.
37. Little does the sick man consult his own interests
who makes his physician his heir. Syrus.
38. Many funerals discredit a physician.
Ben Johnson.
39. Most physicians as they grow greater in skill
grow less in their religion. Massinger,
40. Nature, time and patience are the three great
physicians.
41. New doctor ? new church-yard. Ger,
42. No good doctor ever takes physic. Ital.
43. No man is a good physician who has never
been sick. Arabian.
44. No physician is better than three. Ger.
45. No physician takes pleasure in the health even
of his best friend. Greek Comedian.
46. One physician is better than two but three are
Fatal. Punch,
47. Physician, heal thyself. Ital., Ger.
48. Physicians alone are permitted to murder
with impunity. Petrarch.
49. Physicians' faults are covered with earth and
rich men's with money.
50. That city is in a bad case whose physician
has the gout. Hebrew.
51. That patient is not like to recover who makes
the doctor his heir.
52. The barber must be young and the physician
old. Ger.
53. The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet,
and Dr. Merryman.
54. The blunders of physicians are covered by
the earth. Por.
55. The disobedience of the patient makes the
physician seem cruel.
56. The doctor is often more to be feared than
the disease. Fr.
57. The doctor seldom takes physic.
58. The earth hides as it takes the physician's
mistakes. Sp.
59. The first physicians by debauch were made,
Excess began and doth sustain the trade.
Dryden.
60. The four best physicians, Dr. Sobriety, Dr.
Jocosity, Dr. Quiet and Dr. Gold. Ger.
61. The physician can cure the sick, but he can-
not cure the dead. Chinese,
62. The physician cannot drink the medicine for
the patient. Ger.
63. Time is the ablest of all mental physicians.
Fielding.
64. When the physician can advise the best the
patient is dead. Ger.
65. When you call the physician call the judge to
make your will. Ger.
66. Who has a physician has an executioner. Ger.
67. With respect to the gout, the physician is but
a lout.
68. You need not doubt, you are no doctor.
Fever.
I. A fever is as troublesome upon a couch of
state as upon a flock bed.
Happiness.
I. All happiness is in the mind.
a. Better be happy nor wise.
3. Happiness flies court for garret.
4. Happiness invites envy. Latin.
5. Happy are they that have not the blood of
kindred to avenge.
6. Happy he who can live in peace. Fr.
7. Happy he who can take warning from the
mishap of others. Dan.
8. Happy is he that is happy in his children.
9. Happy is he that serveth the happy.
10. Happy is he who is content. Ger.
11. Happy is he who is made wary by others
perils. Latin.
12. Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
13. Happy is he whose friends were born before
him.
14. Happy is she who is in love with an old dotard. Ital.
15. Happy is the man who does all the good he talks of.
16. Happy is the man who keeps out of strife.
Latin.
17. He is happy who knoweth not himself to be
otherwise.
18. He is happy who knows his good fortune.
Chinese
19. He is not happy who knows it not.
20. He is truly happy who makes others happy.
21. He who is happy is rich enough.
22. I, myself, had been happy if I had been un-
fortunate in time.
23. If happiness have not her seat and centre in
the breast, we may be wise, or rich, or great, but
never can be blest. Bums.
24. Men expect that happiness should drop into
their laps. Tillotson.
25. Neither gold nor grandeur can render us
happy. La Fontaine,
26. No happiness without holiness.
27. No man can be called happy before his death.
(Solon's saying to the king of Lydia).
28. No man can be happy without a friend, nor
be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
29. Oh, happiness ! how far we flee
Thy own sweet paths in search of thee.
30. Our happiness in this world proceeds from
the suppression of our desires, but in the next from
the gratification. Spectator.
31. Scarcely one man in a thousand is capable of
tasting the happiness of others. Fielding.
32. That is but a slippery happiness that fortune
can give and fortune take away.
33. The first requisite for happiness is that a man
must be born in a famous city. Euripides,
34. The man that is happy in all things is more
rare than the phoenix. Ital.
35. The man who would be truly happy should
not study to enlarge his estate, but to contract his
desires Plato,
36. The memory of happiness makes misery woeful.
36. There is no happiness without virtue.
37. Tis better to be happy than wise.
38. 'Tis not good to be happy too young.
39. 'Tis only happiness can keep us young. Maga.
40. To be happy on earth one must be born in
Soo Chow (a favorite place in China). Chinese.
41. To be of use in the world is the only way to
be happy. Hans Andersen.
42. To make one man happy you may always calculate
on making ten others miserable. Maga,
43. True happiness is to no place confined.
But still is found in a contented mind. Horace.
44. We are never so happy or fortunate as we
think ourselves.
45. We cannot expect always to be happy; by
exercising evil as well as good, we become wiser.
Hans Andersen.
Health.
1. A cool mouth and warm feet live long.
George Herbert.
2. A dry cough is the trumpeter of death.
3. A man too busy to take care of his health la
like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
4. After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a
mile.
5. After melon wine is a felon.
6. After pear, wine or the priest.
7. After stuffing pears within, drink old wine
until they swim. Sp.
8. Against diseases known, the strongest fence
Is the defensive virtue, abstinence. Franklin,
9. Air coming in at a window is as bad as a
cross-bow shot.
10. Always rise from the table with an appetite
and you will never sit down without one.
11. As he. who has health is young, so he who
owes nothing is rich.
12. Be old betimes that thou mayest long be so.
13. Better lose a supper than have a hundred
physicians. Sp,
14. By the side of sickness health becomes sweet.
Welsh,
15. "Cover your head by day as much as you will,
by night as much as you can.
16. Don't stop the way of a bull or of a current of
air. Sp,
17. Good health is above wealth.
18. Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each
other. Spectator.
19. Health and understanding are the two great
blessings of life. Greek.
20. Health is happiness.
21. Health is the vital principle of bliss. Thomson,
22. He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.
23. He that wants health wants everything, Fr.
24. He that would be healthy must eat temperately and sup early. Sp,
25. He that would be healthy must wear his
winter clothes in summer. Sp,
26. He who has not health has nothing.
27. He who is well has half won the battle. For
28. He who never was sick dies the first.
29. Health and cheerfulness make beauty, finery
and cosmetics cost many a lie. Sp,
30. Health consists with temperance alone.
31. Health dwells with the peasant. Ger.
32. Health is better than wealth. Turk.
33. Health is great riches.
34. Health is not valued till sickness comes.
35. Health is the most admirable manifestation
of right living.
36. Health without money is a half malady. Ital.
37. If you would be healthy be wise betimes. For.
38. Keep your feet dry and your head cool and
for the rest live like a beast.
39. Let him cool in the skin he sat in.
40. Not to wish to recover is a mortal symptom.
Sp.
41. Of the malady a man fears, he dies. Sp,
42. Spare diet and no trouble keep a man in good
health.
43. Strong folks have strong maladies. Ger.
44. Study sickness while you are well.
45. There are no riches like health.
46. Three things kill a man; a scorching sun, suppers and cares. Sp,
47. To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to
bed at nine makes a man live to ninety-nine. Fr.
48. To rise at six, eat at ten, sup at six, go to bed
at ten makes a man live years ten times ten. Fr.
49. To the well man every day is a feast day. Turk.
50. We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
51. When you are well keep as you are.
52. Without health life is not life, life is lifeless.
Hypochondria.
I. Disease without a disease. Fr.
I11.
1. He that does ill hates the light.
2. He that prepares for ill gives the blow a
meeting, and breaks its stroke.
3. He that would do no ill must do all good or
sit still.
4. He that's ill to himself will be good to nobody.
5. He who hath done ill once will do it again.
6. If well and them cannot, then ill and them can.
7. If you be not ill, be not ill like.
8. If you do nay ill, do nay ill like.
9. If you have done no ill the six days you may
play the seventh.
10. Ill comes on war's back.
11. Ill doers are ill thinkers.
12. Ill getting hot water fray 'neath cauld ice.
13. Ill in kine, and worse in beeves.
14. Ill is the eve of well. Ital.
15. It is ill to take out of the flesh that is bred in
the bone.
16. No ill befalls us but what may be for our good.
17. He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody. Scotch.
18. One ill calls another.
19. The good are better made by ill,
As odors crushed are sweeter still. Rogers,
20. There are ills that happen for good. Por,
21. There is no ill but comes for good. Sp,
22. There n'er came ill after guide advisement,
23. 'Tis a good ill that comes alone.
24. To favor ill is to injure the good.
25. We have always sufficient strength to bear the
ills of another.
26. When I did well I heard it never ; when I die?
ill I heard it ever.
27. Who all sense of others' ills escapes.
Is but a brute at best in human shape.
MADNESS
1. A mad beast must have a sober driver.
2. A mad bull is not to be tied up with a pack
thread.
3. A mad dog cannot live long.
4. A madman and a fool are no witnesses.
5. A madman is not cured by another running
mad also.
6. A mad parish must have a mad priest.
7. As mad as a March hare.
8. A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.
9. Every madman thinks all other men mad.
Syrus.
10. He is mad that trusts in the Idlness of a
wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's
oath. Shaks.
11. If madness were pain you would have out-
cries in every house.
12. It is best to profit by the madness of others.
Fliny the Elder.
13. Make way for 5> madman and a. bull. Sp.
14. One mad action is not enough to prove a man
mad.
15. There are pleasures in madness known only
to madmen. Dr, Johnson.
16. Though this be madness yet there's method
in it. Shaks.
MEDICINE
I. A little drug oft brings relief.
2. A disease known is half cured.
3. A doubtful remedy is better than none. Latin.
4. Bitter pills are gilded. Ger,
5. Bitter pills may have wholesome effects.
6. Dear physic always does good, if not to the
patient at least to the apothecary. Ger,
7. Desperate diseases require desperate remedies. Fr.
8. I was well, would be better, took physic and
died. An epitaph.
9. If physic do not work prepare for the kirk.
10. If the pills were pleasant they would not want
gilding.
11. Learn from the beast the physic of the field.
Pope.
12. Medicines are not meant to live on.
13. Meet the disease at its approach.
14. One is not so soon healed as hurt.
15. Our bane and physic, the same earth bestows.
And near the noisome nettle blooms the rose.
Ovid.
16. Patients are simples that grow in every medical man's garden. Punch.
17. Pills must be bolted not chewed. Fr.
18. Starve the measles and nourish the small-pox.
Chinese.
19. The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the mind. Buckminster.
20. To yield to remedies is half the cure. Seneca.
21. What cures Sancho makes Martha sick. Sp.
SICKNESS
1. Away with thee, sickness, to where they make
a good pillow for thee. Sp.
2. Be lang sick that you may be soon hale.
3. He is in great danger who being sick thinks
himself well.
4. In time of sickness the soul collects itself
anew. Pliny.
5. It is better to be sick than care for the sick.
Turk.
6. It is easy for a man in health to preach
patience to the sick.
7. Sickness comes in haste and goes at leisure.
Dan,
8. Sickness comes on horseback and departs on
foot. Dutch,
9. Sickness comes uninvited; no need to bespeak
it. Dan,
10. Sickness is every man's master. Dan.
11. Sickness is felt but health not at all.
12. Sickness tells us what we are.
13. Sickness will spoil the happiness of an emperor as well as mine.
14. The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion.
15. The sick man is free to say all. Ital,
16. The sick man is vexed with the flies on the wall. Ger,
17. The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot. Ital.
16. The sickness of the body may prove the
health of the soul.
19. "Who can escape sickness?" quoth the
drunken wife when she lay in the gutter.
Sleep.
1. All are not asleep who have their eyes shut.
Ger,
2. All who snore are not asleep. Dan.
3. Death's half-brother, sleep. Dryden
4. Do not go to sleep early and rise late. Hindu.
5. Every one will sleep as he makes his bed.
M. Greek.
6. He hath slept well who remembers not he
slept ill.
7. He sleeps as dogs do when wives sift meal.
8. He sleeps soundly who has nothing to lose. Fr.
9. He who desireth to sleep soundly, let him
buy the bed of a bankrupt.
10. He who lies long in bed his estate feels it.
11. He who sleeps alone keeps long cold; two
soon warm each other. Ger.
12. He who sleeps by day will hunger by night.
Detroit Free Press.
13. He who sleeps catches no fish. Ital.
14. He who sleeps much learns little. Sp,
15. He who sleeps well does not feel the fleas. Ital.
16. If I sleep, I sleep for myself; if 1 work, I
know not for whom. Ital.
17. If men had not slept the tares had not been
sown.
18. Til sleep on it. Dutch,
19. It is good to sleep in a whole skin.
Ger. Dutch, Dan.
20. It is not for a man in authority to sleep a
whole night. Homer.
21. Let him who sleeps too much borrow the pillow of a debtor. Sp.
22. Not all are asleep who have their eyes shut.
Ital.
23. O sleep 1 it is a gentle thing;
Beloved from pole to pole. Coleridge.
24. One hour's sleep before midnight is better
than two after. Fr,^ Ger,
25. One must not take his cares to bed with him.
Ger.
26. Quiet sleep feels no foul weather.
27. Slavery's only service money ? sweet sleep.
Bea.
28. Sleep is a sovereign physic. Massinger,
29. Sleep is a thief : it steals half one's life. Ger,
30. Sleep is the brother of death. Ger.
31. Sleep makes every man as great or rich as the
greatest.
32. Sleep not in time of peril.
33. Sleep over it and you will come to a resolution. Sp,
34. Sleep that knits up the travelled sleeve of
Care.The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath;
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second
course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. Shaks.
35. Sleep that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye.
Shaks.
36, Sleep to the sick is half health. Ger.
37. Sleep without supping and waste without
sowing.
38. The less a man sleeps the more he lives.
39. Those who come from labor and exercise
sleep more sweetly than the inactive and effeminate.
40. Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep.
Voting.
41. To sleep a dog's sleep.
42. We are all equals when we are asleep.
Don Quixote.
43. We can sleep with open gates ? we have nothing to lose. Loyai Songs.
44. When unbruised youth with unstufFed brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth
reign. Shaks.
45. Who goes fasting to bed will sleep but lightly.
Dutch.
46. Who goes to bed supperless all the night tumbles and tosses.
47. You should go to the land of Nod where they
pay you for sleeping.
48. You would do well in Slumberland where
they have half a crown a day for sleeping.
Stomach.
1. A full stomach praises Lent. Dan.
2. A full stomach studies unwillingly. Ger.
3. A sharp stomach makes a short devotion.
4. It is a difficult task to speak to the stomach
because it hath no ears. Cafo.
5. It is the stomach that bears the feet.
Don Quixote,
6. No stomach is a span bigger than another.
Don Quixote
7. Sharp stomachs make short devotion.
8. Small stomachs, light heels.
9. The stomach is a bad counsellor. Ger.
10. The stomach is a shopkeeper that gives no
credit. Ger.
11. The stomach is easier filled than the eye. Gtr^
12. The stomach is master of all arts. Ger,
13, The stomach makes the thief and murderer.
Ger.
14. The stomach rules the head. Ger.
15. The stomach sharpens the senses and makes
the head witty. Ger.
16. When the stomach is full the heart is glad.
Dutch.
Surgeon.
1. A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a
lion's heart, and a lady's hand.
2. Call not a surgeon before you are wounded.
3. He mistakes the knife of the surgeon for the
blade of the assassin.
4. Tender surgeons make foul wounds. JtaL
5. The best surgeon is he of the soul.
6. The best surgeon is he that has been hacked
himself.
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"THE ANTIQUITY OF PROVERBS, Fifty Familiar Proverbs and Folk Sayings with Annotations and Lists of Connected forms,
Found in All Parts of the World" by Dwight Edwards Marvin
(New York: Putnam's Sons, 1922).
PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF
VARIANT PROVERBS
A healer of others, himself diseased. (Latin).
Before healing others heal thyself. (West Africa).
If you can pull out, pull out your own gray hairs. (Oji ?
West Africa).
Physician, heal thy lameness. (English).
The doctor has a ringworm on his nose. (Assamese).
The Panre would teach others, but he himself stumbles.
(Behar).
ALLIED PROVERBS
A good example is the best sermon. (English).
An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. (English).
Example does more than much teaching. (German).
Example is better than precept. (English) .
Example teaches more than precepts. (English).
Good example is half a sermon. (German).
Good preachers give fruits not flowers. (Italian).
He is a good preacher who follows his own preaching. (German) .
He is past preaching who does not care to do well. (French).
Point not at other's spots with a foul finger. (English).
Practice is better than precept. (English).
Practice what you preach. (English).
Precept begins, example accomplishes. (French).
The Panre would teach others but he himself stumbles.
(Behar).
There are many preachers who don't hear themselves.
(German).
Why beholdest thou the mote in thy brother's eye, but
considerest not the beam in thine own eye. (Hebrew).
PROVERBS ABOUT PHYSICIANS
A broken apothecary, a new doctor. (English).
A half doctor near is better than a whole doctor afar.
(German).
A lucky physician is better than a learned one. (German) .
A new doctor, a new apothecary. (English).
Better wait on the cook than the doctor. (English).
Doctors make the very worst patients. (English).
Each physician thinks his pills the best. (German).
Every man at forty is either a fool or a physician. (English) .
He who has suffered is the physician. (Modern Greek).
Feastings are the physician's harvest, Christmas.
It may have been that the word "Christmas" at the end of the proverb was originally placed at the beginning. (English).
Honor a physician before thou hast need of him. (English) .
If doctors fail what shall avail. (English) .
No good doctor ever takes physics. (Italian).
No man is a good physician who has never been sick.
(Arabian).
That city is in a bad case whose physician has the gout. (Hebrew).
The barber must be young and the physician old. (German).
The best surgeon is he who has been hacked himself.
(English).
The disobedience of the patient make the physician seem
cruel. (English).
The doctor seldom takes physic. (English, Italian).
The physician can cure the sick but he cannot cure the dead. (Chinese).
The physician cannot drink medicine for the patient.
(German).
You need not doubt, you are a doctor. (English) .
PROVERBS THAT DISPARAGE PHYSICIANS
A new doctor, a new grave digger. (German).
An ignorant doctor is no better than a murderer. (Chinese) .
A loquacious doctor is successful. (Tamil).
A physician is an angel when employed, but a devil when
one must pay him. (German) .
A young physician should have three graveyards. (German).
Do not dwell in a city whose Governor is a physician.
(Hebrew).
Fond of lawyer, little wealth; fond of doctor, little health.
(Spanish).
God healeth and the physician has the thanks. (English).
God keep me from judge and doctor. (Turkish).
God is the restorer of health and the physician puts the
fee in his pocket. (Italian).
He who kills a thousand people is half a doctor. (Tamil).
Hussars pray for war and the doctor for fever. (German) .
If the doctor cures the sun sees it; if he kills the earth
hides it. (Scotch).
If you have a friend who is a doctor take off your hat to
him, and send him to your enemy. (Spanish).
If you have a friend who is a physician send him to the
house of your enemy. (Portuguese).
It is God that cures and the doctor gets the money.
(Spanish).
Leaches kill with license. (English).
No physician is better than three. (German).
One doctor makes work for another. (English).
Physicians* faults are covered with earth and rich men's
with money. (English).
Physicians are costly visitors. (English).
The blinders of physicians are covered by the earth.
(English, Portuguese).
The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
(French).
The doctor says that there is no hope and, as he does the
killing, he ought to know. (Spanish).
The doctor's child dies not from disease but from medicine.
(Tamil).
The earth covers the mistakes of physicians. (Italian, Spanish).
The earth hides as it takes the mistakes of physicians.
(Spanish).
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor
his heir. (English).
The physician owes all to the disease and the disease
nothing to the physician. (English).
The physician owes all to the patient and the patient owes
nothing to him but a little money. (English).
The physician takes the fee but God sends the cure.
(German, Spanish).
Time cures more than the doctor. (English).
'Tis not the doctor who should drink physic. (Italian).
When the physician can advise the best patient is dead. (German).
When you call a physician call the judge to make your will.
(German).
While the doctors consult the patient dies. (English).
With respect to gout the physician is but a lout. (English).
Who has a physician has an executioner. (German).
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1. A aucun les biens viennent en dormant. (Fr.)
Good things come to some people while they sleep.
202. Alia vayas, mal, ado te pongan buen cabe9al. (S.) Prov
? Away with you, sickness, to the places where they make
you a good pillow to take your ease.
293. Animus sequus optimum est serumnse condimentum. (L.)
Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 71.
? Patience is the best remedy for trouble. What can't be cured must be endured.
326. Apres la mort le me'decin. (Fr.) Prov. ? After death the
doctor. When it is too late.
328. Apres le rire, les pleurs : Apres les jeux, les douleurs. (V.) Breton Prov.
? After laughter, tears; after play, pain.
461. Aux grands maux les grands remedes. (V.) Prov.
? Desperate diseases demand desperate remedies.
644. Ce n'est pas 6tre bien aise que de lire. (Fr.) St Evremond 1
? Laughing is not always a sign of a mind at ease.
928. Curarum maxima nutrix Nox. (Z.) Ov. M. 8, 81. ?
That best nurse of troubles, Night.
1285. Dum spiro spero. (Z.) ? While I breathe I hope. Motto
of Viscount Dillon.
1288. Dum vivimus, vivamus. (L.) ? Inser. Gruter. ? While we
live, let us enjoy life. Enjoy life while you can.
"Live while you live," the epicure would say,
"And seize the pleasures of the present day." ? Doddridge.
(2.) Manducemus et bibanius, eras enim morieraur. Vulg. Cor. 1,
15, 32. ? Let us eat and drink for to-morrow we die.
(3.) Dum licet, in rebus jucundis vive beatus,
Vive memor quam sis sevi brevis. Hor. S. 2, 6, 96.
Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may,
With life so short, 'twere wrong to lose a day. ? Conington.
(4.) Dum fata sinunt, vivite laeti. (L.) Sen. Here. Fur. 177.?
While fate allows, live happily.
(5.) Sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi
Spem longam reseces. Dum loquimur, fugerit invida
iEtas : carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Hor. C. 1, 11, 6. Strain your wine, and prove your wisdom : life is short, should hope be more ? In the moment of our talking, envious time has slipped away. Seize the present ; trust to-morrow e'en as little as you may. ? Conington. (6.) Indulge genio, carpamus dulcia ; nostrum est
Quod vivis : cinis et manes et fabula fies.
Vive memor leti : fugit hora ; hoc, quod loquor, inde est.
Pers. 5, 151. Stint not then your inclination, pluck the rose-bud while you may; It is ours the living moment, soon you'll be but dust and clay. Think of death : the hour's flying, what I speak is sped away. ?Ed.
3680. On n'est jamais si heuveux, ni si malheureux qu'on
se I'imagine. (Fr.) La Rochef. Max. p. 37, ? 49. ?
One is never either so happy or so miserable as one imagines.
5352. Wer sicb selbst kitzelt, lacbt wenn er will. (G.) Prov. ?
The man who tickles himself, can laugh when he chooses.
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An old physician, and a young lawyer.
After death, the doctor.
Better a tooth out than always aching.
Call not a surgeon before you are wounded.
Content is happiness.
Content is more than a kingdom.
Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches
into gold.
Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces.
Diseases are the price of ill pleasures.
Felicity lies much in fancy.
Felicity eats up circumspection.
Great wealth makes us neither more wise nor more healthy.
Happy is he that serveth the happy.
Happy is he who hath sowed his wild oats betimes.
Happy is he whose friends were born before him.
Happy is the child whose father went to the devil.
Happy is the man who sees his faults in his youth.
Happy is the man whose enemies have been in small matters
Happy men shall have many friends.
Happiness generally depends more on the opinion we have
of things, than on the things themselves.
He is lifeless, that is faultless.
He is like a bell, that will go for every one that pulls it.
He never was good, neither egg nor bird.
He opens an oyster with a dagger.
He that lives long suffers much.
He that lives not well one year sorrows for it seven.
Health is great riches.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Health without wealth is half a sickness.
Much meat, much malady.
Prevention is much preferable to cure.
Sickness it better than sadness.
Sickness is felt, but health not at all.
Sickness tells us what we are.
Sickness will spoil the happiness of an emperor as well as mine.
Surgeons cut that they may cure.
Surgeons must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a
lady's hand.
Surgeons ought not to be full of sores themselves.
Temperance, employment, and a cheerful spirit, are the
great preservers of health.
That patient is not like to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
The best remedy of afflictions is submitting to providence.
The best surgeon is he that has been well hacked himself.
The disobedience of the patient makes the Physician seem
cruel.
The drunkard continually assaults his own life.
The patient hath more need of the physician, than the
physician of the patient.
Ulcers cannot be cured, that are concealed.
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Modem; with many Thousands of Proverbs, Familiar Phrases and
Sayings, from all sources, including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and other Languages" by W. GURNEY BENHAM (PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY & London: CASSELL & Company, 1907).
The surgeon (or barber) practices on the orphan's head.
A broken apothecary, a new doctor. (E.)
A crown is no cure for the headache.
A dry cough is the trumpeter of death. (B.)
A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye,
a lion's heart, a lady's hand. (E.)
A little labour, much health. (G. H.)
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness. (E.)
A sickly body makes a sickly mind.
A thing is bigger for being shared.? {Gaelic.)
A wound never heals so well but that the
scar can be seen.? (From the Danish.)
After dinner sit awhile ;
After supper walk a mile. (E.)
After dinner sleep a while; after supper go to bed. (R.)
April fools. (Possibly from an ancient
notion that the springtime was specially
fruitful in folly. )
When beans are in flower, fools are in full
strength. (Fr.)
Diseases are the interests of pleasures. (R.)
Diseases are the tax on pleasures. (R.)
Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. (R.)
Eat and drink measurely, and defy the mediciners. (R.)
Fear kills more than disease.
Fear kills more than the physician.
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
Go not for every grief to the physician,
nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for
every thirst to the pot. (G. H.)
The physician takes the fee, but God
sends the cure (Span.)
Happy is the physician who is called in at
the end of the illness.
Health and sickness surely are men's
double enemies. (G. H.)
Health is better than wealth.
Health and good estate of body are above
all gold.
I would rather be healthy than rich.
Hope is grief's best music.
If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he
kills, the earth hides it. (Sc.)
Laugh and grow fat.
Little griefs are loud, great griefs are
silent.
Lying is weakness; truth is health.
Mad people think others mad.
Much meat, much maladies.
Music will not cure the toothache.
Old wounds bleed easily.? (Germ.)
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth
three after. (G. H.)
Sleep over it.
Night is the mother of counsels. (G. H.)
The difference is wide that the sheets will
not decide. (R.)
Night is the mother of thoughts.?
Sleep over it and you will come to a decision.
? (Span.)
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr.
Use three physicians' skill : first Dr. Quiet,
Then Dr. Meiriman, and Doctor Diet.
? Old Rhyme.
The best remedy against an ill man is
much ground between both. {From the Spanish.)
The chief box of health is time. (G. H.)
The chief disease that reigns this year is folly. (G. H.)
The choleric drinks, the melancholic eats,
the phlegmatic sleeps. (G. H.)
The physician owes all to the patient, but
the patient owes nothing to him but a little
money. (G. H.)
There is an hour wherein a man might be
happy all his life, could he find it. (G. H.)
Happiness passes everyone in life once. ? (Germ.)
Time cures more than the doctor.
Where one is wise two are happy.
While the doctors consult, the patient die.
Who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
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