Excess Body Weight

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

    “Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Sang a bone upon the shore;
    “A man if I but held him so
    When my body was alive
    Found all the pleasure that life gave”:
    A bone wave-whitened and dried in the wind.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The hurt is not enough:
    I long for weight and strength
    To feel the earth as rough
    To all my length.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)