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If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.

—Dolly Parton, 2003

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

—George Eliot, 1872

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

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

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

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

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

—Karl Marx, 1860

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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.

—Marcel Proust, 1919

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985