Excess Body Weight

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

“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)