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  •    Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick, you shouldn't take it.

    - Henry Ford
    Attributed. US businessman, grandson of Henry Ford, president of the Ford Motor  Co  from 1945  and  chairman  from 1960.  He  introduced many modernizing measures.

  • Klassisch ist das Gesunde, romantisch das Kranke. The classical period was healthy; the romantic diseased.

    -JohannWolfgang von Goethe
      Spru«  che in Prosa, Maximen und Reflexionen, pt.7.

  • Le bonheur est salutaire pour les corps, mais c'est le chagrin qui de  veloppe les forces de l'esprit. Happiness is healthy for the body, but it is sorrow which enhances the forces of the mind.

    - Marcel Proust
    ' 1927  A la recherche du temps perdu,'LeTemps retrouve ' .

  • Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthyand wealthyand dead.

    -James Grover Thurber
      'The Shrike and the Chipmunks', in the NewYorker,18 Feb.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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