Health Quotes

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families. ~ Silas Marner by George Eliot Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence. ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides." ~ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world. ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville