One body cannot perform two services.
—Chinese Proverb
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-born British Novelist
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French Poet, Playwright, Film Director
A feeble body weakens the mind.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) Swiss-born French Philosopher
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
—Jim Rohn (1930–2009) American Entrepreneur, Author, Motivational Speaker
Better to satisfy the body than to tarnish the soul.
—Chinese Proverb
The body of joy is not so big.
—African Proverb
Master and servant—both have the same body odor.
—Tibetan Proverb
Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body.
—Irene Claremont de Castillejo (1885–1967) British Psychoanalyst
The body never lies.
—Martha Graham (1894–1991) American Choreographer
It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
—Epictetus (55–135) Ancient Greek Philosopher
He who has a straight body is not worried about his crooked shadow.
—Chinese Proverb
Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
—Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
—Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian Singer, Songwriter, Poet, Novelist
Your body belongs to the Tsar, your soul to God, and your back to the squire.
—Russian Proverb
Death is a shadow that always follows the body.
—English Proverb
Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
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
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
—George Meredith (1828–1909) British Novelist, Poet, Critic
When the head is sick the whole body is sick.
—Dutch Proverb
Better a sick body than an ignorant mind.
—Greek Proverb
Your soul to God, your body to dust, your property to your relatives, because thus it has been found written.
—Maltese Proverb
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
—George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher
Doctors purge the body, ministers the conscience, lawyers the purse.
—German 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
Our bodies are our gardens—our wills are our gardeners.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Easier to bend the body than the will.
—Chinese Proverb
The physician prescribes the medicine, the vulture waits for the body.
—Turkish Proverb
If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
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