Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Quotes
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Carnal 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, 1981It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64