Shubnell’s Profound Thoughts
Book 3
Great Thoughts from Great Minds about
Health, Wealth, Knowledge, and Wisdom for
Executives, Speakers, Writers, and just about Everyone
Thomas F. Shubnell, Ph.D.
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Table of Contents
Health .................................................................................6
Health..........................................................................7 Thoughts for Food .....................................................21 Exercise.....................................................................31
Wealth ..............................................................................36
Wealth .......................................................................37 Knowledge and Wisdom ..................................................69
Knowledge and Wisdom ............................................70 Index.................................................................................95
Index .........................................................................96
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Health
Another great medical breakthrough would be the discovery that a patient’s time is worth something.
Advice after injury is like medicine after death.
Good health is the thing that makes you feel now is the best time of the year.
It helps our days so very much to give life‘s hurts the lighter touch.
Pain and suffering are inevitable, but misery is optional.
Worry causes wrinkles, which give you something else to worry about.
If you have no charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Why do you never see a motorcycle parked outside a psychiatrist’s office?
My doctor thinks I’m a hypochondriac. He wrote me a prescription, and when I asked the pharmacist for the generic equivalent, he handed me a bag of M&Ms.
God heals, and doctors take the fee.
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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“How can I be cured?” the man asked. “Faith,” said the doctor, “Hope and faith.”
We now have eyeglasses for our visual problems and hearing aids for our auditory problems. I wish science would come up with a thinking aid.
My doctor is one of those who puts her price list on the wall. I went in with a rare ailment, and she charged me extra for ordering off the menu.
Pleasure is an unusual emotion - it seems you can get it only by giving it.
Your body is like a superbly tuned automobile. Even if you take care of it, use it wisely, and maintain it properly, it will eventually break down.
When you rust after standing in the rain, you may be taking too much iron.
Children induce a constant medical condition: they are either a lump in the throat, or a pain in the neck.
Some folks are not hard of hearing; they are hard of listening.
My doctor is brilliant. He told me, “With proper care, the human body will last a lifetime.”
Enthusiasm is contagious. So is the lack of it.
Doctors don’t know everything; fifty percent of them graduated in the bottom half of their class.
Be careful when reading health books. You might die of a misprint.
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Why are magazines found in the attic so much more interesting than the same issues in the doctor’s office?
Patients are not allowed to walk out of a hospital. Somebody might think they were cured.
You never know what ripples of healing you set in motion by simply smiling at someone.
Patience is when you listen silently to someone tell about the same operation you had.
Eyesight can give us vision. Insight can give us wisdom. Foresight can give us riches. Hindsight can give us ulcers.
Health insurance enables one to be ill, at ease.
The difference between a rash and an allergy is about $400 worth of tests.
Three rules for healthy teeth: Brush after every meal, see your dentist often, and mind your own business.
Remember when the only ones who scolded you about smoking were your parents?
An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease.
It’s easy to develop respiratory problems when being discharged from the hospital; it’s from holding your breath while they total up your bill.
A family doctor is one who treats yours, while you support his.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Good friends are good for your health.
Good health and good sense are two of life‘s greatest blessings.
A strong body makes the mind strong.
It’s all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
Beware of young doctors and old barbers.
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
Gout is not just for gluttons.
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn’t pay my bill he gave me six months more.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Troubles waste the stomach like rust wastes iron.
Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.
It is impossible to lick your elbow, or your eyebrows.
There is no tranquilizer more effective than a few kind words.
Untold suffering seldom is.
I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
They tell you that you will lose your mind when you grow older. What they don’t tell you is that you won’t miss it.
If you feel that your doctor is unsatisfactory, remember that all medical students do not make A’s.
Do not take things with a grain of salt, you may get high blood pressure.
Do not chew the fat with anyone, it may cause high cholesterol.
A hypochondriac is someone who doesn’t feel well unless he is sick.
The wound of a sword will heal; the wound of a tongue will not.
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Do not cut off your nose to spite your face.
Life is sometimes like medicine - it’s good to get a second opinion.
Psychology, which explains everything, explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
When you finally get on Medicare, your first big break will probably be a big bone.
How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you chose your parents.
For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
The only way to keep your health is to: eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you would rather not.
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in a doctor’s book.
Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
To get rich, never risk your health, because health is the wealth of wealth.
A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.
Don’t find fault, find a remedy.
Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of the mirror.
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He who has health, has hope. He who has hope, has everything.
It’s considered an experimental drug because they don’t know whether they will make a bundle on it yet.
Better a lie that heals, than a truth that wounds.
Never go to a surgeon who doesn’t know where he lost his ring.
People who are too busy taking care of their health are like misers hording a treasure, which they never have spirit enough to enjoy.
Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.
While waiting for the doctor’s results from an examination, the news of the day suddenly seems unimportant.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. So does a patient without health insurance.
If it weren’t for golf courses, we would never be able to find a doctor.
It’s inconvenient to grow old with good health. It leaves you with so little to talk about.
Just when I can afford to lie in the sun, they decide it’s hazardous to my health.
A plastic surgeon made his loved one an offer she couldn’t refuse, “Marry me and you will never look a day older.”
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Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
I have learned much from disease, which life could never have taught me any other way.
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
The only total disability in life is a bad attitude.
If you live in a dream world, you are neurotic. If you make a living in a dream world, you are a psychiatrist.
The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much. Then again, don’t drink too little.
You cannot be fit as a fiddle if you are as tight as a drum.
If you don’t take care of your body, where else are you going to live?
Exercise is done against one’s wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
You don’t get an ulcer from what you eat, you get an ulcer from what is eating you.
Acupuncture does not cure windbags.
You know your youth is gone when you have trouble finding a doctor who looks old enough to know what he’s doing.
Science has proven that nothing wears out the human body faster than doing nothing.
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People who cough a lot seem to go to movies more often than they go to doctors.
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance.
High priced doctors and huge hospital fees make it impossible to be ill, at ease.
The thinner your hair gets, the thicker your waist gets.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
If you look like your passport photo, you are too ill to travel.
When I said I learned to live with a pain in the neck, I was talking about my husband.
The doctor said you will regain use of everything, but your wallet.
Golf is a wonderful exercise. You stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.
Two six-year olds were talking. One said, “Let’s play doctor. You operate and I’ll sue.”
No matter how much you pay for a private hospital room, you are still going to get a semiprivate gown.
Hypochondriac’s headstone, “I told you I was sick.”
If you want to look young and thin, hang out with old, fat people.
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No one becomes dizzy from doing good turns.
I have such a great doctor. If you can’t afford the operation, he touches up the X-rays.
One result of working day and night is you will earn enough to pay the hospital bill.
A physician’s duty is not just to extend life; it’s also to end suffering.
Enthusiasm is like measles: If you don’t have it, you can’t give it to anyone.
Grief is itself a medicine.
When you have to swallow your own medicine, the spoon always seems three times as big.
Get on your knees and thank God you are on your feet.
Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.
No matter how much you nurse a grudge it won’t get better.
My doctor said I was sound as a dollar and that scared the heck out of me.
Sometimes I feel like a snapdragon - no snap and everything is draggin’.
You have to know what is biting you before you reach for a remedy.
A worry a day drains vitality away.
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The only kind of painless dentistry is the kind practiced on someone else.
When you hide your emotions, your stomach keeps score.
The person who gives you a detailed account of his operation makes you experience the pain without the benefit of anesthesia.
Hardening of the heart is worse than hardening of the arteries.
These days, a miracle drug is one that is sold at an affordable price.
Advice is like medicine; you have to take it to find out if it does you any good.
A recent survey found that nine out of ten doctors say, “Do you have insurance?”
We would have a very poor appearance if the scars on our souls showed.
Watch out for fake medical cures. When you see a quack, duck.
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Moderation is a fatal thing, nothing succeeds like excess.
People who are late for doctor appointments are usually right on time.
Remember that cutting remarks have a way of leaving scars.
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Show me a person with a bad toothache and I’ll show you a person who is dentally disturbed.
Those who misbehave know that time wounds all heels.
Many a man’s loose tongue has broken his nose.
Of all the home remedies, a good wife is still the best.
If you cannot read the writing, there’s a good chance that it was written by a doctor telling the pharmacist, “I have mine, now you get yours.”
You must work seven days a week, ten hours each day, if you intend to pay for your heart attack.
My doctor told me I had low blood pressure, so he gave me my bill. That raised it.
When someone asks, “How are you doing?” It is not necessary to give them a full health report.
I read that the typical symptoms of stress are eating too much, drinking too much, impulse buying, and driving too fast. That sounds like my idea of a perfect day.
Giving is an exercise that makes a healthy heart.
If God had wanted me to touch my toes, he would have put them on my knees.
Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes, you will know you are dead.
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The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.
Forget the pain and get on with the party.
Temptation is sure to ring your doorbell, but do not ask it to stay for dinner.
The better the doctor, the harder it is to read his handwriting.
Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs.
Some people don’t need others to feel sorry for them. They do fine all by themselves.
If it doesn’t bleed, you won’t get much sympathy.
Doctors don’t take accidents personally - like the Mafia, it’s just business.
Never drive faster than your angel can fly.
I finally got my head together, now my body is falling apart.
The best thing about Alzheimer’s disease is you get to meet new people every day.
Remember when health foods were whatever your mother said to eat - or else?
Funny, I don’t remember being absent-minded.
Some doctors tell us we are the picture of health. Then they bill us for the frame.
People who have operations often give organ recitals.
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Even when you have pains, you do not have to be a pain.
Whatever you go to the doctor for, it feels better once you get there.
As long as I have my health, older is better than younger.
I am tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That is deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?
When a hypochondriac has the measles, he tells you how many.
If you want to look like a picture of health, you need to have a good frame of mind.
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Thoughts for Food
I didn’t fight my way to the top of the food chain to become a vegetarian.
When you eat with someone else, calories don’t count if you do not eat more than they do.
Dieting can be summed up in one, word - snackerifice.
Some folks think we will live longer if we give up everything that makes us want to.
I went to a diet doctor and in two weeks I lost $800.
Key to longevity Eat what you like, but less - do what you like, but more.
A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit.
Chocolate is a food group.
Some people think that a balanced diet is a burger in each hand.
You never realize what a poor loser you are until you start dieting.
If God intended us to eat peanut butter, the roof of our mouth would be Teflon coated.
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Maintaining good health would be a breeze if oatmeal tasted as good as bacon.
Eating lots of fiber will make you a bran new person.
Today the four basic food groups are too fat, too salty, too tasteless, and too expensive.
If you drink diet soda with a candy bar, the calories in the candy bar are canceled out by the diet soda.
God‘s crumbs are better than the world’s loaves.
There is a new Chinese diet. You eat your food with one chopstick.
If the peanut butter and jelly don’t leak out of the sandwich, there is not enough peanut butter and jelly on it.
Swallow your pride - it is non-fattening.
If you eat something and no one sees you eat it, it has no calories.
You always gain five pounds on the scale at the doctor’s office.
Anything consumed from someone else’s plate has no calories, since the calories rightfully belong to the other person.
Overweight is hereditary - it shows up in your jeans.
The day you begin a diet, someone wants to take you to dinner in your favorite restaurant.
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Seeing is deceiving, eating is believing.
Cookie pieces contain no calories. The process of breaking causes calorie leakage.
It’s a little too much to save, and a little too much to dump. There’s nothing to do, but eat it, that makes a person plump.
How can a two pound box of candy make you gain ten pounds?
Foods used for medicinal purposes never count, such as hot chocolate.
If it tastes good, it must be good for you.
What’s the most fattening thing you can put in a banana split? Your spoon.
I would give up chocolate, but I’m no quitter.
Things licked off of knives and spoons have no calories, if you are in the process of preparing a meal.
There is far more hunger for love and appreciation in the world than there is hunger for bread.
Eating your words comes after your biting remarks.
Why diet? Getting into Heaven doesn’t depend on the size of your waistline.
Envy eats nothing, but its own heart.
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You know a woman is a serious dieter when she starts taking off her makeup before getting on the scale.
Inquire not what boils in another’s pot.
Anything consumed while standing has no calories. This is due to gravity and the density of the caloric mass.
I try to watch what I eat, but my eyes aren’t always fast enough.
To lengthen your life, lessen your meals.
I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Never lick a steak knife.
I’m on three different diets at the same time. It’s the only way I get enough to eat.
On-and-off dieters are folks who fluctuweight.
Times change - bullies no longer kick sand in the face of the ninety-pound weakling, they ask him for his diet.
The secret to dieting is not to eat between snacks.
It’s a good thing that life is not all peaches and cream. We would have to watch out for the pits and cholesterol.
It’s not a diet; it’s a way of life.
I think I see your problem. You own a hundred cookbooks and one sex manual.
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Chocolate makes my clothes shrink.
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
You are what you eat, as a rule of thumb, the more you eat, the more you become.
What was the best thing before sliced bread?
Food that never goes up in price is food for thought.
On average, a hundred people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
People who pan dieting, develop a pot.
It would be a lot easier to lose weight and keep it off if the replacement parts weren’t so easily available in the refrigerator.
I have never met a carbohydrate I didn’t like.
Good intentions, like fruit, are perishable and difficult to keep.
To lose weight, eat alphabet soup alphabetically.
I want nothing to do with natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.
Forbidden fruit is sometimes responsible for a bad jam.
It’s not the number of minutes you put in at the dining table that makes you fat; it’s the seconds.
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The weak will inherit the girth.
Recipe for having food taste like mother used to make: walk five miles before dinner.
In your work as in your food - no leftovers.
For every woman who counts her blessings, there are a hundred women who count their calories.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Movie fans that eat lots of popcorn gradually develop bucket seats.
There is nothing wrong with my eyes. Today I killed three chocolate chips. I thought they were flies.
The trouble with people who eat like birds is that they are always chirping about it.
Why is soup never spilled on a tie you don’t like?
Grandma’s cookies didn’t need preservatives - they didn’t last that long.
Beauty will not season soup.
Doctors say that if you eat slowly, you will eat less. Anybody raised in a large family will tell you the same thing.
A strict diet is easy to break. As a matter of fact, it’s a piece of cake.
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Window sign: “We sell cake, and we sell pies, what we don’t sell are thin thighs.”
Good character, like good soup, is usually homemade.
Talking about your diet won’t take the pounds off. You have to keep your mouth shut.
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
It is a fact that more people are going on diets tomorrow than today.
I’m starting a diet tomorrow. I will no longer be my blubber’s keeper.
What melts in the mouth bulges in the mirror.
Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.
Now that food has replaced sex in my life, I can’t even get into my own pants.
Most diets originate in clothing stores.
It is hard to succeed in dieting, but harder not to tell how you did it.
If you believe that you are what you eat, don’t eat nuts.
Red meat is not bad for you, but green meat. . . that’s bad for you.
If you like stirring plots, read a cookbook.
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The worst kind of indigestion comes from having to eat your own words.
I only have a kitchen because it came with the house.
Warning to dieters: What’s on the table soon becomes on the chair.
Forbidden fruit creates many jams.
No matter how much frosting you put on a bad cake, it is still a bad cake.
A biscuit warms the tummy, but a smile warms the heart.
Eat at your own table as you would at the table of a king.
Eat slower - you will live longer.
A good cook is one who makes meals for her family three times a day, 365 days a year, whether she cares to eat or not.
People will remember you more for the good food you serve than your not-so-perfect house.
You are what you eat, from your head to your feet.
Eat your bread and you’ll be fed.
Lord, if you won’t make me skinny, please make my friends fat.
Hunger is the handmaiden of genius.
On this diet you can eat anything you want. Here is a list of the things you are allowed to want. . .
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Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion.
If you like garlic, salt, and tabasco sauce, you can make almost anything taste good.
If the cake has your name on it, it has no calories.
Cupcakes are served without handles.
If you eat only natural organic food, you will die healthy.
Life is too short to eat brown bananas.
I have dentures, bifocals, and a hearing aid, and still complain about preservatives.
If you want to know which side your bread is buttered on, try dropping it.
Flattery is like chewing gum, enjoy it, but don’t swallow it.
If you want to eat less, eat alone.
Schools offer food for thought, but most students are on a diet.
Fools swallow flattery in one mouthful, but drink truth drop by drop.
We get sick from what we put in our mouths, and we get hurt from what comes out of them.
I am a light eater. I eat everything in sight as soon as it is light.
When mom is on a diet, everyone is on a diet.
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Never inhale through your nose when eating a powdered doughnut.
If they do not have chocolate in Heaven, I am not going.
If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen.
Never buy clothes with the idea that you will lose weight.
Things would be worse - sex could be fattening.
Never take oats lightly.
Stress is what happens when your gut says no, and your mouth says, yes, I will be glad to.
If you don’t think there is a devil, when on a diet, try getting past his cake.
Speak sweetly; you may have to eat your words.
I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.
By the time I am thin, fat will be in.
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Exercise
An athletic person is someone who pays a teenager to mow the lawn so he can play golf to get some exercise.
If you’re pushing sixty, that’s exercise enough.
The only reason I would take up jogging is to hear heavy breathing again.
Nature apparently meant for us to sit more than walk. That’s why our hips are wider than our feet.
Some people get most of their exercise running away from unpleasant tasks.
If your dog is fat, you are not getting enough exercise.
I like running. I just don’t like the part where I get tired.
Nothing is better than the wind at your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you.
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
Today‘s unsung heroes are those who don’t jog or work out and who don’t feel guilty about it.
Aerobics is a series of strenuous exercises which help convert fats, sugars, and starches into aches, pains, and cramps.
To get back my youth, I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Two things are bad for the heart - running up hills and running down people.
At my age, all I exercise is caution.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
The race may not always go to the swift, but it does always go to one of the runners.
The most tiring exercise in the world is carrying yesterday on your back.
Walking is a popular form of exercise that loses some appeal when it is done behind a lawn mower.
Gardening is something that is healthy exercise if you can straighten up afterward.
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a science in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than pay the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you are not in shape, it’s too far to walk back.
After forty, life is just a physical maintenance job.
A good teacher is one whose ears get as much exercise as his mouth.
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The only thing that people do that doesn’t get better with practice is get up in the morning.
What good are buns of steel, if they’re attached to thighs of Jello?
Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later need to find time for illness.
To men a twenty-mile hike is physical fitness. To women it’s called shopping.
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
Joggers should run in a wheel like hamsters, because I don’t want to look at them.
Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
Running late seems to be the only exercise some people have time for.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Every man must walk in the garden of his soul.
Some consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.
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The best exercise for the heart is to bend down and help someone.
I get enough exercise just pushing my luck.
My doctor said jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.
I did some exercise once. I got over it - I’m okay now.
What do you do for exercise? Nothing, but I have been a pallbearer for many that did.
A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.
After lunch sit a while, after supper walk a mile.
I signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose-fitting clothing, if I had any loose-fitting clothing, I wouldn’t have signed up in the first place.
Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
Exercise is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states
When I was young we used to go ‘skinny dipping’ now I just ‘chunky dunk’.
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, and the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die.
Commit to be fit.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul. I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out.
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
I have to exercise in the morning, before my brain figures out what I am doing.
If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all.
Exercise is hooey. If you are healthy, you don’t need it, and if you are sick, you shouldn’t take it.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
The best six doctors anywhere and no one can deny it Are sunshine, water, rest, and air, exercise and diet. These six will gladly you attend, if only you are willing Your mind they’ll ease, your will they’ll mend, and charge you not a shilling.
My idea of exercise is a good, brisk sit.
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Wealth
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Wealth
The only true wealth is self worth.
To think only of the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow is to miss the beauty of the rainbow itself.
The poor person is not one who is without a cent, but one who is without a dream.
True wealth should not be calculated by money. It should he calculated by the number of beautiful memories a person has accumulated.
The only think harder to keep than a secret, is your money.
Money might buy all the friends in the world, but they are seldom worth the price.
He who imparts cheerfulness is adding to the wealth of the world.
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can’t buy.
Great endowments to colleges are beautiful, but when a one-year-old gives part of his candy bar to a friend, that’s philanthropy.
Wealth
38
A dollar doesn’t go far these days, but it doesn’t stay around long either.
Debt is the devil in disguise.
There are plenty of five cent cigars still around, the trouble is they cost a dollar now.
When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience will get the money and the person with the money will get some experience.
Financially, most of us are probably in the middle income and upper outgo bracket.
Fidelity bought with money, can be overcome with money.
Isn’t it strange how many people who have no problem giving the Lord credit are reluctant to give Him cash?
We really do not control memory. We just like or dislike what it decides to offer us.
There’s no telling about investment advisers. One man’s prophet is another man’s loss.
A fool and his money never appear when you need a loan.
When we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is vanity and excess.
The cost of living is so high because yesterday‘s luxuries have become today‘s necessities.
Wealth
39
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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