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Many so-called spiritual people, they overeat, drink too much, they smoke and don't exercise. But they do go to church every week and pray 'Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.'

Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Exercise to live. Never live to exercise.

Exercise is like an addiction. Once you're in it, you feel like your body needs it.

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.

How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.