Famous quotes containing the words body and/or effect:
“A Mans body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin, and a jerkins lining;Mrumple the oneyou rumple the other.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“Nothing could his enemies do but it rebounded to his infinite advantage,that is, to the advantage of his cause.... No theatrical manager could have arranged things so wisely to give effect to his behavior and words. And who, think you, was the manager? Who placed the slave-woman and her child, whom he stooped to kiss for a symbol, between his prison and the gallows?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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