Lapham’s Quarterly

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

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

If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.

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

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

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

Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.

One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.

There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.

As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.

The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.

What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.

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

The body says what words cannot.

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

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

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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

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

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

The world is made of the very stuff of the body.

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

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

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

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