If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003Quotes
Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981