It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
26 quotations, from Naval Ravikant, Benjamin Franklin and others, each checked for who actually said it.
Short lines on the body, rest and illness, from physicians and writers. Several well-known health proverbs are credited here to the proverb, not to the famous person usually blamed for them.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
The first wealth is health.
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'd druther not.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.
A healthy outside starts from the inside.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Sleep is the best meditation.
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states.
Mental health is not a destination, but a process.
The mind and body are not separate. What affects one, affects the other.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought, they must be earned.
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom.
If you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
You can't enjoy wealth if you're not in good health.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
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Get the appVerses and attributions checked against the poets' published collections; lines that circulate online under famous names but are not theirs have been left out. Translations prepared and checked by MyByteNest. Updated 1 October 2026. Spot an error? Tell us.