Excess Body Weight

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

“For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“Dogberry. Are you good men and true?
Verges. Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer salvation, body and soul.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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)