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
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947