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Body Quotes by William Shakespeare
- It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
- Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head…
- Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
- I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace,…
- Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
- Two lovely berries molded on one stem: So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.
- Patch up thine old body for heaven.
- Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat…
- But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.
- I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am…
- We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.
- Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.
- Is it not strange that sheep's guts could hail souls out of men's bodies?
- The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms…
- Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.
- Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?
- Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.
- When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.
- Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we…
- ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king,…
- Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here…
- Tam: What begg’st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: ’Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue…
- Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
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 impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — 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 well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine