Exercise

(187 votes)   Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Marcus Valerius Martial
40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist

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(144 votes)   Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(106 votes)   Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(103 votes)   Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(80 votes)   Exercise is labor without weariness.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(80 votes)   Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

Jean Paul

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(79 votes)   The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Douglas William Jerrold
1803-1857, British Humorist, Playwright

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(76 votes)   Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(75 votes)   We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(69 votes)   Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

Charles M. Schultz
1922-, American Cartoonist, Creator of ''Peanuts''

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(68 votes)   A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

St. Jerome
c.342-420, Croatian Christian Ascetic, Scholar

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(66 votes)   Exercise: you don't have time not to.

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(65 votes)   The physically fit can enjoy their vices.

Lord Percival

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(58 votes)   A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

David Mccord

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(55 votes)   Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.

Robert M. Hutchins
1899-1977, American University President

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