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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.
o What cures Sancho makes Martha sick.
o When the spleen increases, the body diminishes.
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