Excess Body Weight

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

    “For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure—tangible material prosperity in this world—is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “Her body is a honey bowl
    Whose waiting honey is deep and hot.
    Her body is like summer earth,
    Receptive, soft, and absolute . . .”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “I falter where I firmly trod,
    And falling with my weight of cares
    Upon the great world’s altar-stairs
    That slope thro’ darkness up to God,”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)