If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003Quotes
One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.
—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BCNothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797