There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860Quotes
All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975