Excess Body Weight

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

“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

“If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“I falter where I firmly trod,
And falling with my weight of cares
Upon the great world’s altar-stairs
That slope thro’ darkness up to God,”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)