Excess Body Weight

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

“Solomon’s ... excess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have forty thousand stalls of horses,—he had unfortunately miscalculated his other wants, and so had seven hundred wives....
Wise—deluded man!”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Tears at times have the weight of speech.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)