Supple Quotes

48 Supple quotes by 38 unique authors

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus… — Laozi
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple… — Samuel Ullman
Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and… — Laozi
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance. — Socrates
You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is… — William Zinsser
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient… — Jack Vance
Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice,… — Geeta Iyengar
May my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if its sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are… — E E Cummings
Contrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles. ... Nor does Contrology err either by over-developed a few muscles… — Joseph Pilates
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the… — Joseph Pilates
All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry. — Laozi
When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft… — Laozi
I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've… — Nadine Velazquez
The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like… — Laozi
The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and the exercises of… — Alois Podhajsky
Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over… — Diane Ackerman
Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe? — Laozi
If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and… — Laozi
Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and… — Henry David Thoreau
The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way. Dakota… — Lisa Schwarzbaum
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make… — Marcel Proust
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful. — Pablo Casals

Who Wrote These Supple Quotes

38 authors contributed a total of 48 Supple Quotes, led by these top contributors: