"Reading is to the mind what exercise is……" — Augustus Hare
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch."
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine