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Body Quotes - Page 141

My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich

William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1831). “The dramatic works and poems of William Shakespeare, with notes, original and selected, and introductory remarks to each play”, p.303

When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.

'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. 11

Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1855). “Miscellanies: Ballads. The book of snobs. The tremendous adventures of Major Gahagan. The fatal boots. Cox's diary”, p.64

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.

William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.43

My, my. A body does get around.

Jack L. Capps, William Faulkner (1979). “Light in August: a concordance to the novel”

I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.

William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

A dead body revenges not injuries.

William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Psychology Press