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Quotes About Physique

The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on an unknown shore, and be forced to win his way amidst a new people. It may then be of little use to play cricket or to mishandle Tschaikowsky on a piano, but good physique, intelligence, and will power make their way infallibly.
~ Unknown
Men have broad shoulders and narrow hips, and accordingly they possess intelligence. Women have narrow shoulders and broad hips. Women ought to stay at home; the way they were created indicates this, for they have broad hips and a wide fundament to sit upon.
~ Unknown
Apperance is a Consequence of Fitness.
~ Mark Twight
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
~ Christopher Isherwood
brows, a flattened nose, and massive arms and shoulders.
~ Unknown
Appearance is the consequence of fitness, and confidence is a consequence of capability.
~ Mark Twight
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique
~ Minna Antrim
A BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is considered "ideal weight.
~ Michael Greger
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.
~ Minna Antrim
The body of the average woman is 27 percent fat, that of the average man 15 percent fat. The leanest elite female athletes may get their body fat down to 11 or 12 percent, but that is nearly double the percentage of body fat found on the elite male athlete
~ Natalie Angier
People," he said, "talk about eyes and mouths as if they had something to do with the way other people think and behave. Only bits of the body, aren't they? Like navels and knees and toenails. Arrangements.
~ Ngaio Marsh
She had wide shoulders, a tight waist flowing into rounded hips, and muscles on her fingers and forearms and neck. I guessed her back was also finely muscled, and her legs. It was muscle that comes from intensive training from an early age, the kind a trapeze artist or free climber or high diver develops. Not something acquired behind a food counter.
~ Nicola Griffith
Pour la majorité des gens, le physique compte en amitié et même pour les relations les plus élémentaires....je parle de cette chose si vague et si importante que l'on nomme physionomie. AU premier coup d'oeil, il y a des êtres qu'on aime et des malheureux qu'on ne peut pas encadrer. Le nier serait une injustice supplémentaire.
~ Unknown
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
~ Oscar Wilde
Anyone who think that boys are innocent and sweet has never been a boy himself or has forgotten it. And anyone who think men aren't hurtful and cruel at time must not leave his house often, and he certainly has never been a physiquer, we see the effects of cruelty more than any other".
~ Patrick Rothfuss