Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will
sooner or later have to find time for illness.
Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby (1826-93), British statesman.
The Conduct of Life, address at Liverpool College, 20 Dec 1873.
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early
strength even in old age.
Cicero (106 BC-43 BC) Roman orator and statesman. An
Old Age, X.
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if
you are sick you shouldn't take it.
Henry Ford (1863-1947), US industrialist. Attrib.
Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling
passes.
Robert M Hutchins (1899-1977), US educator. Attrib.
One swears by wholemeal bread, one by sour milk; vegetarianism
is the only road to salvation of some, other insist not only
on vegetables alone, but on eating those raw. At on time the
only thing that matters is calories; at another time they are
crazy about vitamins or about roughage.
The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately,
having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.
Robert Hutchison (1877-1960), Newcastle Medical Journal,
Vol 12, 1932.
Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on
an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath....
Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite
and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
Hippocrates (c 460 BC-c. 377. BC), Greek physician.
A Regimen for Health, IV.
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious
proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the
most brilliant intelligence of our earliest days - Thomas Jefferson
- when he said, not less than two hours a day should be devoted
to exercise.
If the man who wrote the Decleration of Independence, was
Secretary of State, and twice President, could give it two hours,
our children can give it ten or fifteen minutes.
John F Kennedy (1917-63), US statesman, Address to
the National Football Foundations, 5 Dec 1961.
Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise -
the quadrangle of health.
William Osler (1849-1919), Canadian physician. Sir
William Osler: Aphorism, Ch. 3 (William B. Bean).
We do not stop exercising because we grow old - we grow old
because we stop exercising.
Dr. Kenneth Cooper, Cooper Institute.
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
Juma Ikangaa, Tanzanian marathoner
Learn one way; react. Learn many ways; understand.
Tadeu Dias, Former Professional Brazilian Football
Player and Professional US Soccer Coach
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
Sam Walton
Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems
in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.
John Kotter, Harvard Business School professor and
best selling author
Even when experts all agree, they may be mistaken.
Bertrand Russell
All truths are initially either ridiculed or violently opposed.
Schopenhauer (philosopher)
Science can only prove something; it can never disprove anything.
Anonymous Authors
Use your head, and save your feet.
W Carr (Dialect of Craven)
In spite of all the cost of living, its still popular.
Kathleen Norris
The health of nations is more important than the wealth of
nations.
Will Durant
Genes load the gun, but environment pulls the trigger.
Dr David Herber (Director, UCLA Center for Human Nutrition)
Food is an important part of a balanced diet
Fran Lebowitz
When the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to view
everything as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you
care.
Theodore Roosevelt
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