Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

— Plato

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

— Pliny the Younger

“Those who think thy have no time for bodily exercise, will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”

— Edward Stanley Derby

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God…

— Anonymous

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

— Edward Stanley

The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

— Aristotle

What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . .…

— Norman Cousins

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right…

— Aristotle

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

— Aristotle

Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all…

— Aristotle

I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.

— Roy Harper

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

We can't feel the rotation of the planet, but in some ways we can because our bodily systems are reacting to it and have…

— Jessa Gamble

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

— Eva Zeisel

Perhaps the most sophisticated and highly evolved system is that originated by Joseph Scogna. I was impressed by the profound insights into the relationship…

— Rudolph Ballentine