best quotations about
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Quotations
 | Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body. — Xaviera Hollander, 1943-, Dutch call girl & author 12 likes |
 | Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 8 likes |
 | Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced. — Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814, French writer 4 likes |
 | The human body is the best picture of the human soul. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 4 likes |
| As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. Therefore, as the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 4 likes |
 | Women do not know how to separate the soul from the body. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 3 likes |
 | The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 2 likes |
 | It is only up to the head to think, but the whole body has memory. |
 | The body is the instrument of our hold on the world. |
| To lose confidence in one’s body means to lose self-confidence. |
 | If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer. |
 | A cliff full of flowers is the body of the woman. |
 | We write as we feel, as we think, with our entire body. |
 | There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want. |
 | We do not “have” a body; rather, we “are” bodily. |
 | Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but the body when lost may never be acquired again. |
 | The body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger. |
 | As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. |
 | The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony. |
 | Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? |
 | The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. |
Latin Quotes
 | A healthy mind in a healthy body. Mens sana in corpore sano. — Juvenal, 1st-2nd cent. AD, Roman satiric poet 76 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | If we really stuck with the classic Greek priorities, a sound mind in a sound body, the only two places we'd ever go is to a library or a gym. |
Ancient Greek
 | Perfection of the soul puts right the faults of the body. Ψυχής τελεότης σκήνεος μοχθηρίην ορθοί. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 12 likes |
 | It is a sign of stupidity to take too much care of your body. Αφυΐας σημείον το ενδιατρίβειν τις περί το σώμα. — Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher 6 likes |
 | When bodies become effeminate, souls get much weaker as well. Των σωμάτων θηλυνομένων και αι ψυχαί πολύ ασθενέστεραι γίγνονται. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 3 likes |
