quotations about exercise
I don't even know how this word came into being: "aerobics". I guess gym instructors got together and said, "If we're going to charge ten dollars an hour, we can't call it 'jumping up and down'."
RITA RUDNER
Naked Beneath My Clothes
Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Vanity Fair, Oct. 2007
For, in the course of common life, a man must either often exercise, or fast, or take physic, or be sick; and the choice seems left to every one as he likes.
WILLIAM TEMPLE
"Of Health and Long Life"
Let exercise alternate with rest.
PYTHAGORAS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The best exercise is the one you enjoy most.
SALLY LYOBEBE
Health and Exercise is Wealth with Recipes
Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.
CHARLES DUHIGG
The Power of Habit
I get most of my exercise these days from shaking my head in disbelief.
ANONYMOUS
The body when over-labored becomes heavy and jaded; but it is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.
CICERO
attributed, Day's Collacon
Exercise is wonderful ... I could sit and watch it all day.
LARRY NIVEN
Ringworld
Good things come to those who sweat.
ANONYMOUS
Walking is the very best exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785
If you have time for Facebook, you have time to exercise.
ANONYMOUS
I go to the gym because I think my great personality could use a banging body.
ANONYMOUS
Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation.
JACK LALANNE
attributed, Quotes
Exercise? I thought you said extra fries!
ANONYMOUS
My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
PHYLLIS DILLER
attributed, Quote Unquote
Exercise is quite majestic when seen from a distance.
BAUVARD
The Prince of Plungers
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, Jul. 12, The Spectator, Jul. 12, 1711
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
A. A. MILNE
Winnie-the-Pooh
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN
Epistle to John Driden of Chesterton