“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
More from Hippocrates on Health
“Let food be thy your medicine”
“In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.”
“Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.”
“It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.”
“Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.”
“What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.”
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”
“Walking is man's best medicine.”
“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.”
“If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.”
Others on Health
Swami Vivekananda
3 quotes“Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.Love is Life, Hatred is Death.”
Lao Tzu
2 quotes“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.”
Lucille Ball
2 quotes“The secret of staying young is to live honestly eat slowly and lie about your age.”
Seneca
2 quotes“The wish for healing has always been half of health.”
Deepak Chopra
2 quotes“But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.”
Joseph Addison
1 quote“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.”
Plutarch
1 quote“Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.”
Aldous Huxley
1 quote“Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.”
Francis Bacon
1 quote“A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.”
Joyce Meyer
1 quote“I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.”
Sir Francis Bacon
1 quote“A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1 quote“Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.”