41 Metaphors for health

"Surely comfort, ease, health are the best a man can offer.

In London, or Lourdes, or Rome there would at least have been a reminderto put it very mildlyof other possibilities than these: of a Heavenly Mother, a Suffering Man; a hint that solid animal health was not the only conceivable ideal.

But, it will be urged, ill-health is quite another kind of disharmony than vice.

Health is the consciousness of the unreality of pain and disease; or, rather, the absolute consciousness of harmony and of nothing else.

" Physical health is a necessary condition of all permanent success.

Carl's health and strength were on the final ebbthe long, slow ebb that made of his last years one dismal tragedy, which only his superb devotion to his wife and his immitigable optimism could brighten.

The continued ill-health of Mrs. Santon had been the chief cause of the return of the family to the east.

My sister's health has been so delicate the last three months, that she is advised to go to Geneva.

Then, too, she has it brought home to her each pay day that health is capital.

Health is the rule, and sickness the rare exception.

But, in this case, the mother's habitual ill-health had been a great expense in the household for several years.

Bodily health and cleanliness were only secondary considerations; voluptuous pleasure was the main object.

"This is a terrible trial to us poor scribblers," she writes, "to whom health is money, as well as all other things worth having."

Public health is people; an institute on mental health in public health held at Berkeley, California, 1948.

His health is a matter that lies outside my jurisdiction.

Health is perpetual youth,that is, a state of positive health.

In thy hand is the strength of thousands, and thy health is the health of millions.

The distressed Wanderer, whose health was now a good deal impaired by hunger, fatigue, and watching, slept a long time, but seemed to be frequently disturbed.

Why, your daughter: she will be taken out of poverty and want, and carried to sea-breezes and scented meadows; her health and her comfort will be my care; she will fill the gap in my house and in my heart, and will be my heiress when I die.

Good-nature is generally born with us: Health, Prosperity and kind Treatment from the World are great Cherishers of it where they find it; but nothing is capable of forcing it up, where it does not grow of it self.

Even his weak health was the subject of Brigson's coarse ridicule, and the bad boy paid, in deep hatred, the natural tribute which vice must ever accord to excellence.

Even his weak health was the subject of Brigson's coarse ridicule, and the bad boy paid, in deep hatred, the natural tribute which vice must ever accord to excellence.

Mental health is a family affair.

You ought, at all events, to see Italy; and your health, which I suggest as a motive, may be an excuse to you.

Health is wealth.

41 Metaphors for  health