The
human body is made up of some four hundred muscles;
evolved through centuries of physical activity.
Unless these are used, they will deteriorate.
- Eugene Lyman Fisk
Wholesome
exercise in the free air, under the wide sky, is the
best medicine for body and spirit.
- Sarah Louise Arnold
The
human body was designed to walk, run or stop;
it wasn't built for coasting.
- Cullen Hightower
It
is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps
the mind in vigor.
- Cicero
We
sit at breakfast, we sit on the train on the way to
work, we sit at work, we sit at lunch, we sit all afternoon,
a hodgepodge of sagging livers, sinking gall bladders,
drooping stomachs, compressed intestines, and squashed
pelvic organs.
- John Button, Jr.
Those
who do not find time for exercise will have to find
time for illness.
- Earl of Derby
It
is remarkable how ones wits are sharpened by physical
exercise.
- Pliny the Younger
True
enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise
of the body; the two are united.
- Alexander von Humboldt
Fitness
- It it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great
body.
- Cher
The
preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious
that there is such a thing as physical morality.
- Herbert Spencer
Exercise
is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
- Hugh Blair
A
sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
- Juvenal
The
body of man is a machine which winds its own springs.
- J. O. De La Mettrie
A
vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy
but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and
psychology in the world.
- Paul Dudley White
After
dinner, rest awhile, after supper, walk a mile.
- Arabic Proverb
Walking
is the best possible exercise.
- Thomas Jefferson