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Quotes about Body


God bless us every one, prayed Tiny Tim, Crippled and dwarfed of body yet so tall Of soul, we tiptoe earth to look on him, High towering over all.

James Whitcomb Riley

Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite, Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes, That banish what they sue for: redeem thy brother By yielding up thy body to my will, Or else he must not only die the death, But thy unkindess shall his death draw out To ling'ring sufferance.

William Shakespeare

. . . I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

Barbara Hepworth

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Lee Haney

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.

Chungliang Al Seneca

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure.

George Melton

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

John Donne

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Roger Von Oech

The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.

Julien Offroy De La Mettrie

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Lee Haney

Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.

Joseph Hall

Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

Nathaniel Cotton

The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

Norman O. Brown

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.

Francis Bacon

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

Natalie Clifford Epictetus

My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken].

Jackie Chan

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine— everybody drinks water.

Mark Twain

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Margaret Fuller

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Thomas B. Cicero

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water.

Mark Twain

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

Bill Cartwright

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Joseph Addison

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Mark Twain

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