Excess Body Weight

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

“There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,—all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)