QuoteProject
Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.
Thomas Jefferson
ShareWTF𝕏

Interpretation

What this quote means

Traveling promotes physical and mental well-being while providing enjoyment.

Thomas Jefferson's quote emphasizes the importance of travel not only for leisure and enjoyment but also for its health benefits. By experiencing new places and cultures, individuals can rejuvenate their spirits, stimulate their minds, and contribute to their overall well-being, highlighting that both health and happiness can be enhanced through exploration and adventure.

Themes

TravelHealthAmusementExplorationWell-Being

In practice

Example use cases

In a motivational speech about maintaining work-life balance, one might say, 'Remember, as Thomas Jefferson said, traveling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.'

More from Thomas Jefferson

The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
Thomas JeffersonRead
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
Thomas JeffersonRead
β€ŽWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Thomas JeffersonRead
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
Thomas JeffersonRead
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Thomas JeffersonRead
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas JeffersonRead

Similar quotes

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
B.K.S. IyengarRead
HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.
Margaret ChanRead
Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.
Tom HarkinRead
This remains a very important opportunity for the American people to have their day in court against big tobacco and its marketing practices. I urge Congress to provide the funding to allow the lawsuit to move forward, and not to shield the tobacco industry from the consequences of its actions.
William J. ClintonRead
Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.
Oprah WinfreyRead
You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.
Malcolm GladwellRead

A little wisdom, now and then

Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.