soul & body quotes

• You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing. (George Sand) [soul & body/society/power/willpower]
• A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. (William Morris) [willpower/mind/soul & body/memory]
• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. (Daniel Defoe) [soul & body/willpower]
• Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. (Henry Miller) [soul & body/wisdom/soul & body/give]
• Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean. (Geoffrey Chaucer) [willpower/soul & body]
• Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. (Joseph Addison) [health/mind/soul & body]
• A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. (Joseph Addison) [conscience/health/soul & body/more]
• As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger. ( Akhenaton) [soul & body/danger]
• Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun. (Woody Allen) [mind/soul & body/soul & body/more]
• We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. ( Aristotle) [more/soul & body]
• The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panty-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head. (Margaret Atwood) [soul & body/virgin/widow]
• To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences. For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanly the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pajamas at the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal conscience. (Roland Barthes) [soul & body/wine/more/more]
• Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. (Jean Baudrillard) [democracy/society/soul & body]
• The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. ( Napoleon I) [soul & body/mind]
• An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed. (Samuel Butler) [soul & body/life]
• Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. (Samuel Butler) [soul & body/path]
• Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! (Thomas Carlyle) [soul & body/mind/defeat/health]
• The General Order is always to maneuver in a body and on the attack; to maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline; to keep the troops constantly at the ready; to employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go; to use the bayonet on every possible occasion; and to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed. (Lazare Carnot) [order/soul & body/attack/discipline]
• My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken] (Jackie Chan) [eyes/top/soul & body]
• A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [face/activity/soul & body]
• A room without books is like a body without a soul. (Marcus Cicero) [books/soul & body]
• The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body. (Marcus Cicero) [eyes/soul & body]
• A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body. (Marcus Cicero) [youth/soul & body]
• As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. (Marcus Cicero) [youth/youth/soul & body/mind]
• A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. (Leonard Cohen) [soul & body/love]
• It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do. (Charles Caleb Colton) [disease/mind/soul & body]
• Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body. (Charles Caleb Colton) [danger/sun/soul & body]
• In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me. (William Congreve) [conscience/soul & body]
• A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. (Joseph Conrad) [face/joke/soul & body/truth]
• If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe. (Charles Dickens) [crisis/soul & body/day/night]
• To be no part of any body, is to be nothing. (John Donne) [soul & body]

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