Body Quotes

This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truly better known to me than my own soul, may be after all only a sly beast who will end by devouring his master.

A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

What’s the ugliest part of your body? What’s the ugliest part of your body? Some say your nose Some say your toes, But I think it’s your mind.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Sometimes, at extremes, her Body seems to her an animal on a leash, taken for walks in the park by her Mind.

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.

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.

The spirit is willing, but the body is weak. (Matthew 26:41)

Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies.