Body Quotes
Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.
- Astrid Alauda
The way he treats his body, you’d think he was renting.
- Robert Brault
Why do we alienate ourselves so much from our bodies? It’s that big piece of machinery attached to your head.
- Carrie Latet
The body never lies.
- Martha Graham
We don’t stop at our skin.
- Dolores Krieger
A woman is as young as her knees.
- Mary Quant
Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
- Antonio Porchia
The body is a bundle of careful compromises.
- Randolph Nesse
When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.
- Anais Nin
If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.
- Osbert Sitwell
You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
- C.S. Lewis
The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.
- Julien Offroy
This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.
- Seneca
I love the body. Flesh is so honest, and organs do not lie.
- Candea Core
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
- Jim Rohn
The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.
- Robert C. Peale
The mind’s first step to self awareness must be through the body.
- George Sheehan
The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.
- Astrid Alauda
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies.
- Friedrich Nietzche
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
- Novalis
The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.
- Hermann M. Biggs
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
- William Osler
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
- B.K.S. Iyengar
Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.
- Ken Wilbur
The heart is not simply suspended in a body but in a culture, a place, a time.
- Mimi Guarneri
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
- Saint Augustine
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
- George Santayana
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts.
- Samuel Butler
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
- Mark Twain
We use our brains too little, and when we do, it is only to make excuses for our reflexes and our instincts.
- Martin H. Fischer
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
- Pablo Casals
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
- Daniel Defoe
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
- Katherine Mansfield
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy.
- Oscar Wilde
Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery.
- Martin H. Fischer
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
- Bernard
Yet this is health: To have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence.
- Bertha Stuart Dyment
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill


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