Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
~Edward Stanley

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
~Joey Adams

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.
~Plato

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

There are really only two requirements when it comes to exercise. One is that you do it. The other is that you continue to do it.
~The New Glucose Revolution for Diabetes by Jennie Brand-Miller, Kaye Foster-Powell, Stephen Colagiuri, Alan W. Barclay

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

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!
~Author Unknown

Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states.
~Carol Welch

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

The word aerobics came about when the gym instructors got together and said, "If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it jumping up and down."
~Rita Rudner

I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.
~Marsha Doble

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
~A.A. Milne

I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
~Chauncey Depew, also sometimes attributed in slightly different wording to Mark Twain

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.
~Ellen DeGeneres

Commit to be fit.
~Author Unknown

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

The only valid excuse for not exercising is paralysis.
~Moira Nordholt, feelgoodguru.com

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
~Phyllis Diller

Aerobics: a series of strenuous exercises which help convert fats, sugars, and starches into aches, pains, and cramps.
~Author Unknown

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

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
~Author Unknown

An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school.
~David Walters

I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.
~Alec Yuill Thornton

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.
~John Dryden

People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem.
~Chris Adams

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.
~Christiaan Barnard

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.
~Neil Armstrong on jogging, in an interview with Walter Cronkite

If your dog is fat, you're not getting enough exercise.
~Author Unknown

You can cheat on your boyfriend or girlfriend but not on your workout.
~Author Unknown

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
~Mark Twain

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
~Barbara Ehrenreich

Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
~Robert M. Hutchins