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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.

—Marcel Proust, 1919

Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.

—Elizabeth I, 1588

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

—George Eliot, 1872

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.

—Dolly Parton, 2003

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978