Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.
-- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

#Laughter #Health #Exertion
My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature, instead of prescribing drugs, more would have been saved.
-- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

#Nature #Drug #Physicians
If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state.
-- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

#Men #Abortion #Physicians
Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was in accordance with true medical principles.
-- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

#Laughter #Health #Exercise
The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.
-- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

#Nature #Men #Law

Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.
I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.
I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.
Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.
Laughter is the most healthful exertion.
The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion ...

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