The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947
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If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910Carnal 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, 1981O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961