Here are a few health tips for retirement presented through health quotes by the famous and not-so-famous:
- After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
— Helen Gurley Brown
Any man who can get out of bed in the morning is in pretty good shape. Ask any man who can't.
— Unknown wise senior
Many people suffer poor health in retirement, not because of what they eat, but from what is eating them.
— Anonymous wise person
By the time most people discover that good health is everything, they've lost it.
— Unknown wise person
He who has good health is young.
— H.G. Bohn
You want to go easy on the suicide stuff — first thing you know, you'll ruin your health.
— Robert Benchley
Eat only when you are hungry. Drink only when you're thirsty. Sleep only when you're tired. Screw only when you're horny.
— Al Neuharth
A good laugh is the best medicine, whether you are sick or not.
— Unknown retiree
Anybody with normal blood pressure these days just isn't paying attention.
— Unknown wise working person
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom..
— Muriel Spark
A lot of good behavior is due to poor health.
— Unknown retiree
Just about the time your income reaches the point where food prices don't matter — calories do.
— Unknown wise person
Laughter is the remedy for many little ills. It can cure more quickly than the doctor's tiny pills.
— Unknown wise person
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
— Unknown wise person
Why not cultivate retirement health instead of treating disease?
— Unknown wise person in retirement
A lot of people lose their health trying to become wealthy, and then lose their wealth trying to get back their health.
— Unknown wise retiree
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 rather not.
— Mark Twain
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
— George Bernard Shaw
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
— Erma Bombeck
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
— Constitution. The World Health Organization.
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
— Henrik Ibsen
If I would have known that I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
— Cartoon caption in the retirement book The Joy of Not Working, one of the best retirement books that suits your needs
I retired early for health reasons — my company was sick of me and I was sick of them.
— Unknown wise person
