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There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.

—Karl Marx, 1860

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

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 says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.

—Andy Warhol, 1975