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Labor or exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundances, and helps nature in those secret distributions without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor nor the soul act with cheerfulness. - Joseph Addison No body's healthful without exercise: Just wars are exercises of a state; Virtue 's in motion, and contends to rise, With generous ascents above a mate. - Aleyn There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air. - Henry Ward Beecher Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. - Hugh Blair By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service. - Edmund Burke It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) Often try what weight you can support, And what your shoulders are too weak to bear. - Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon The wise for cure on exercise depend: God never made His work for man to mend. - John Dryden I take the true definition of exercise to be labor without weariness. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Let exercise alternate with rest. - Pythagoras You will never live to my age without you keep yourself in breath with exercise. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution. - Lydia Huntley Sigourney A man must often exercise or fast or take physic, or be sick. - Sir William Temple
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