If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003Quotes
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920