Proverb Quotes (15)

Exercise is good for your health, but like everything else it can be overdone.
Anonymous
Arabic Proverb. In Shape Magazine. In Dr. Paul C. Bragg, Dr. Patricia Bragg, Super Power Breathing (1999), 62.
See also:  |  Exercise (7)  |  Health (37)

Filthy water cannot be washed.
Anonymous
African proverb
See also:  |  Water (14)

For most diagnoses all that is needed is an ounce of knowledge, an ounce of intelligence, and a pound of thoroughness.
Anonymous
Arabic Proverb. In Lancet (1951). In John Murtagh, General Practice (1998), 125.
See also:  |  Diagnosis (34)  |  Intelligence (11)  |  Knowledge (156)

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.
Anonymous
Arabic proverb.
See also:  |  Health (37)  |  Hope (3)

Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance between them with great vehemence, as another mode of violent exertion to produce a temporary relief. Thus we have the proverb where no help can be has in pain, 'to grin and abide;' and the tortures of hell are said to be attended with 'gnashing of teeth.'Describing a suggestion of the origin of the grin in the present form of a proverb, 'to grin and bear it.'
Zoonomia, Or, The Laws of Organic Life, in three parts (1803), Vol. 1, 330.
See also:  |  Pain (12)

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
Anonymous
African proverb, Transvaal
See also:  |  Money (39)  |  Physician (87)

If you intend to give a sick man medicine, let him get very ill first, so that he may see the benefit of your medicine.
Anonymous
African proverb, Nupe
See also:  |  Medicine (76)

In the midst of your illness you will promise a goat, but when you have recovered, a chicken will seem sufficient.
Anonymous
African proverb, Jukun
See also:  |  Disease (64)  |  Money (39)

Loss of teeth and marriage spoil a woman’s beauty.
Anonymous
African proverb
See also:  |  Beauty (13)  |  Marriage (9)  |  Teeth (2)

Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid.
Anonymous
Arabic proverb.
See also:  |  Love (6)  |  Pregnancy (2)

No man is a good physician who has never been sick.
Anonymous
Arabic proverb.
See also:  |  Physician (87)

Poison should be tried out on a frog.
Anonymous
African proverb, Bantu
See also:  |  Poison (8)

The California climate makes the sick well and the well sick, the old young and the young old.
Anonymous
American saying
See also:  |  Age (8)  |  Climate (10)  |  Health (37)

Visitor’s footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.
Anonymous
African proverb, Bantu
See also:  |  Healing (4)  |  Medicine (76)

When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool.
Anonymous
Arabic Proverb. In James Long, Eastern Proverbs and Emblems (2001), 84.
See also:  |  Physician (87)

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