What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64Quotes
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981Shame 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, 1951I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910