Excess Body Weight

Famous quotes containing the words excess, body and/or weight:

“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“The body in the grave is like the tree in winter; they conceal their greenness under a show of dryness.... We too must wait for the springtime of the body.”
—Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cent. A.D.)

“Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)