BODY

Related Subjects: Bone, Flesh, Head, Health, Leg, Mind, Skin, Soul

1. The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew-pan and the whole fixed upon stilts.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Note Books
   

2. The precious porcelain of human clay.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

3. Nought cared this body for wind or weather,
   When youth and I lived in't together.—COLERIDGE, Youth and Age
   

4. I gave my son a palace
   And a kingdom to control:
   The palace of his body,
   The kingdom of his soul.—JULIA WARD HOWE, Palace and Kingdom
   

5. This body is my house—it is not I:
   Triumphant in this faith I live and die.—FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES, The Tenant
   

6. A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.—CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, Human Being
   

7. The body is the socket of the soul.—Proverb
   

8. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners; . .. either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
   

9. My body, which my dungeon is,
   And yet my parks and palaces.—STEVENSON, Underwoods
   

10. Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.—SWINBURNE, The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
    

11. Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body.—THOREAU, Walden
    

12. If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.—WALT WHITMAN, Children, of Adam