To sleep much is the health of youth, the sickness of old age.
Long health in youth will shorten life.
It is more wholesome to smell warm bread than to eat it.
A short sickness for the body, and short frost for the earth, will heal; either of them long will destroy.
Whilst the urine is clear, let the physician beg.
Better is appetite than gluttony.
Enough of bread, little of drink.
The bread of yesterday, the meat of to-day, and the wine of last year will produce health.
Quench thy thirst where the washerwoman goes for water.
Three men that are long-lived: the ploughman of dry land, a mountain dairyman, and a fisherman of the sea.