A little body often harbors a great soul.
—Common Proverb
Thick body, weak soul.
—Persian Proverb
The body never lies.
—Martha Graham (1894–1991) American Choreographer
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
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
When the head is sick the whole body is sick.
—Dutch Proverb
He who has a straight body is not worried about his crooked shadow.
—Chinese Proverb
Your body belongs to the Tsar, your soul to God, and your back to the squire.
—Russian Proverb
If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are – like fishes not meant to swim.
—Cyril Connolly (1903–74) British Literary Critic, Writer
Death is a shadow that always follows the body.
—English Proverb
The body achieves what the mind believes.
—Indian Proverb
A healthy soul cannot live in a dry body.
—French Proverb
Where the body wants to rest, there the legs must carry it.
—Polish Proverb
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
—George Meredith (1828–1909) British Novelist, Poet, Critic
The body of joy is not so big.
—African Proverb
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
Eating and drinking holds body and soul together.
—German Proverb
Better to satisfy the body than to tarnish the soul.
—Chinese Proverb
The physician prescribes the medicine, the vulture waits for the body.
—Turkish Proverb
What is said over the dead lion’s body could not be said to him alive.
—African Proverb
Master and servant—both have the same body odor.
—Tibetan Proverb
The character of a man lies not in his body but in his soul.
—Japanese Proverb
Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body.
—Irene Claremont de Castillejo (1885–1967) British Psychoanalyst
Our bodies are our gardens—our wills are our gardeners.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
—Yiddish Proverb
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
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
The mind is the emperor of the body.
—Chinese Proverb
The chief purpose of the body is to carry the brain around.
—Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American Inventor, Scientist, Entrepreneur
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