Quotation Collection

It is the best of humanity, I think, that goes out to walk. In happy hours all affairs may be wisely postponed for this. Dr. Johnson said, 'Few men know how to take a walk,' and it is pretty certain that Dr. Johnson was not one of those few. It is a fine art; there are degrees of proficiency, and we distinguish the professors from the apprentices. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good-humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence, and nothing too much. Good observers have the manners of trees and animals, and if they add words, it is only when words are better than silence. But a vain talker profanes the river and the forest, and is nothing like so good company as a dog. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• exercise

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficiant and warning symptom on the part of Nature. Elbert Hubbard

• health

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed. Ann Landers

• forgiveness

Ain't it funny how many hundreds of thousands of soldiers we can recruit with nerve. But we just can't find one politician in a million with backbone. Will Rogers

• courage
• politicians
• military
• guts

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