Excess Body Weight

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

“I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed: the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“It is strange that they will make ado when a man’s body is buried, but not when he thus really and tragically dies, or seems to die.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“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)