Famous Quotes

"A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness."

William Graham Sumner on Fitness

More quotes about Fitness

• "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."

  John F. Kennedy on Fitness

• "It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Fitness

• "Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."

  Jim Rohn on Fitness

• "Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning."

  Thomas Jefferson on Fitness

• "Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast."

  Thomas Jefferson on Fitness

More quotes by William Graham Sumner

• "The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay."

• "The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous."

• "Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves."

• "Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves."

• "It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land."