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Quotes About Body

For of the soul the body form doth take:For soul is form, and doth the body make.
~ Edmund Spenser
She was a strange mixture of tomboy and bookworm, which was a mercifully kind arrangement for both body and mind.
~ Edna Ferber
Along my body, waking while I sleep, Sharp to the kiss, cold to the hand as snow, The scar of this encounter like a sword
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
For the body at best    Is a bundle of aches, Longing for rest;    It cries when it wakes
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Church says: The body is a sin. Science says: The body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The body says: I am a fiesta.
~ Eduardo Galeano
Que los dioses te guarden, Fabio, de esta plaga, pues de todas las formas de purificar el cuerpo que el hado nos envía, la diarrea es la más pertinaz y diligente.
~ Eduardo Mendoza
Much the same could be said of the tamarisk down in the canyon, of the blue-black raven croaking on the cliff, of your own body. The beauty of Delicate Arch explains nothing, for each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
~ Edward Abbey
the only birds I can recognize without hesitation are the turkey vulture, the fried chicken, and the rosey-bottomed skinny-dipper.
~ Edward Abbey
What are you in for, Rev'rend, anyway? Me, son? My body's here but the spirit's free as a bluebird. Okay, then why is your body here? Well now, the Judge he calls it assault. I done hit a man and he falls down. Didn't hit him hard but he falls down like a log. Maybe he wasn't standin very good.
~ Edward Abbey
The masks of her life would become the mythical body of her art.
~ Edward Butscher
Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.
~ Edward Dahlberg
Abdicate, v.: to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
~ Anonymous
If you don't take care of your body, where will you live?
~ Anonymous
Your body is a temple, but keep the spirits on the outside.
~ Anonymous
A nudist is simply a human being without artificial additives.
~ Anonymous
No woman can be too rich or too thin.
~ Anonymous
This embodied [soul] is eternally unslayableIn the body of everyone, son of Bharata;Therefore all beingsThou shouldst not mourn.Likewise having regard for thine own [caste] dutyThou shouldst not tremble;For another, better thing than a fight required of dutyExists not for a warrior.
~ Anonymous
What do nudists wear on casual Fridays?
~ Anonymous
The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light.
~ Anonymous
[Bottle feeding] also made a fetish out of cleanliness, and maybe all the washing and scrubbing has further reduced the pleasure we take in our body and in life.
~ Anonymous
Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
~ Anonymous
If we were meant to be nude, we would have been born that way.
~ Anonymous
Asanas attune the body to meditation, just as a guitar is tuned before a performance.
~ Anonymous
I'm in shape. Round is a shape... isn't it?
~ Anonymous