Moving Body Maintain

Famous quotes containing the words moving, body and/or maintain:

    People’s tongues are like grass, moving this way and that according to the direction of the winds.
    Chinese proverb.

    Poetry and music I have banished,
    But the stupidity
    Of root, shoot, blossom or clay
    Makes no demand.
    I bend my body to the spade
    Or grope with a dirty hand.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.
    Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)