Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949Quotes
Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Carnal 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, 1981All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883