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.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Topics: Health Quotes, Learning Quotes

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is...

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is...

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health...

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health...

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise...

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise...

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand...

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand...

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by...

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by...

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most,...

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most,...

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy...

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy...

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things...

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things...

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance...

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance...

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain...

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain...

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest...

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest...

Taste cannot be controlled by law

Taste cannot be controlled by law

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no...

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no...