Body Quotes
+1The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
- Saint Augustine
+1The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
- George Santayana
+1The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
+1The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts.
- Samuel Butler
+1Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
- Mark Twain
+1The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.
- D.H. Lawrence
+1We use our brains too little, and when we do, it is only to make excuses for our reflexes and our instincts.
- Martin H. Fischer
+1Why do we alienate ourselves so much from our bodies? It’s that big piece of machinery attached to your head.
- Carrie Latet
+1Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
- Pablo Casals
+1The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
- Daniel Defoe
+1What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
- Aldous Huxley
+1How 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
+1The 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
+1Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery.
- Martin H. Fischer
+1In 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
+1Yet 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
+1Criticism 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
+1No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
- George Bernard Shaw
0Your body’s just a vehicle, transporting the soul. It’s what’s inside of people, is beauty to behold.
- Damian Marley
0Lameness is an impediment to the body but not to the will.
- Epictetus
-1Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.
- Robert Brault