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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

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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

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

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

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

—Karl Marx, 1860

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

The world is made of the very stuff of the body.

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

—George Eliot, 1872

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947