He who has a straight body is not worried about his crooked shadow.
—Chinese Proverb
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
—Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757) French Essayist, Polymath, Philosopher
Easier to bend the body than the will.
—Chinese Proverb
A feeble body weakens the mind.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) Swiss-born French Philosopher
The chief purpose of the body is to carry the brain around.
—Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American Inventor, Scientist, Entrepreneur
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. The very simplicity and nakedness of man’s life in the primitive ages imply this advantage, at least, that they left him still but a sojourner in nature. To be awake is to be alive. Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. Every man is a builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist
A bath refreshes the body, tea refreshes the mind.
—Japanese Proverb
Thick body, weak soul.
—Persian Proverb
Better to satisfy the body than to tarnish the soul.
—Chinese Proverb
You can wash your body but not your soul.
—Yiddish Proverb
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
—George Meredith (1828–1909) British Novelist, Poet, Critic
Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
—Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director
Sometimes your body is smarter than you are.
—Unknown
The labor of the body frees us from the pains of the mind, and thus makes the poor happy.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
—Sa’Di (Musharrif Od-Din Muslih Od-Din) (c.1213–91) Persian Poet
There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man.—Nothing is holier than this high form.—We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.
—Novalis (1772–1801) German Romantic Poet, Novelist
A little body often harbors a great soul.
—Common Proverb
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
—Yiddish Proverb
When the heart acts the body is its slave.
—African Proverb
Our bodies are our gardens—our wills are our gardeners.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Where the body wants to rest, there the legs must carry it.
—Polish Proverb
Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Your soul to God, your body to dust, your property to your relatives, because thus it has been found written.
—Maltese Proverb
When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.
—Chinese Proverb
Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
What is said over the dead lion’s body could not be said to him alive.
—African Proverb
The body of joy is not so big.
—African Proverb
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