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Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

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 BC

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.

—Elizabeth I, 1588

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.

—Dolly Parton, 2003

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

—George Eliot, 1872