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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain
around.
- - - Thomas A. Edison
We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of
the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated
and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech.
- - - Susan Brownmiller "Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape"
The body is a sacred garment.
- - - Martha Graham
The body says what words cannot.
- - - Martha Graham
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've
got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
- - - Lee Haney
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the
body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- - - P. B. Medawar
A married woman has the same right to control her
own body as does an unmarried woman.
- - - Sol Wachtler, Judge, NY State Court of Appeals [Unanimous
opinion that a man may be prosecuted for raping his wife, 20 Dec
84]
QUOTATIONS ABOUT BLOOD
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have
joined this Government: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil,
tears, and sweat."
- - - Sir Winston Churchill
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
- - - Benito Mussolini
Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the
nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood...
there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery
is one of them!
- - - Padraic Pearse
Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within
us.
- - - Sir Osbert Sitwelll
QUOTATIONS ABOUT THE BRAIN
The more you use your brain, the more brain you will
have to use.
- - - George A. Dorsey
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with
all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can
put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it
if he wants it.
- - - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working
the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you
get into the office.
- - - Robert Frost
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that
of others.
- - - Michel deMontaigne
The more you use your brain, the more brain you will
have to use.
- - - George A. Dorsey
I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.
- - - Patricia Schroeder
I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can
borrow.
- - - Woodrow Wilson
QUOTATIONS ABOUT EARS
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut
our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
- - - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in
trouble.
- - - Frank Tyger
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through
her ears.
- - - Woodrow Wyatt
QUOTATIONS ABOUT EYES
Eyes too expressive to be blue,
Too lovely to be grey.
- - - Sir Edwin Arnold
Her sparkling eyes could replace the sun
and her smile, brighten the sky
with her, anything is within my grasp
even the ability to fly
- - - M. R. Brice
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun,
or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood,
by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.
- - - Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's beauty in the silver singing river
There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky
But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty
That I remember in my true love's eyes
- - - Bob Dylan "Tomorrow is a Long Time"
Eyes like the starlight of the soft midnight,
So darkly beautiful, so deeply bright.
- - - C. H. W. Esling
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world
blind.
- - - Mohandas K. Gandhi
The eyes have one language everywhere.
- - - George Herbert
Her eyes the glowworm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;
And the elves also,
Whose little eyes glow
Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.
- - - Robert Herrick "The Night Piece to Julia"
So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do
You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue
Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.
- - - Elton John / Bernie Taupin
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking
new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- - - Marcel Proust
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without
speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
- - - Saint Jerome
My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.
- - - Anna M. Uhlich
Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful
or were her eyes so beautiful because she was loved?
- - - Anzia Yezierska
QUOTATIONS ABOUT HAIR
Gray hairs are death's blossoms.
- - - English Proverb
Babies haven't any hair;
Old men's heads are just as bare;
Between the cradle and the grave
Lies a haircut and a shave
- - - Samuel Hoffenstein
The hair is the richest ornament of women.
- - - Martin Luther
QUOTATIONS ABOUT HANDS
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
- - - e e cummings "Somewhere I have Never Traveled"
QUOTATIONS ABOUT THE HEAD
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not
lose them.
- - - Coco Chanel
A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
- - - H. W. Dodds
How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend
that he just doesn't see?
- - - Bob Dylan "Blowing in the Wind"
Better a bald head than none at all.
- - - Austin O'Malley
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
- - - William Shakespeare "Henry IV"
QUOTATIONS ABOUT THE HEART
Two things are bad for the heart ... running up stairs
and running down people.
- - - Bernard M. Baruch
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
- - - William Cecil Burleigh
When your heart is in your dream, no request is too
extreme.
- - - Jimminy Cricket
Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where
dreams may go
- - - Louise Driscoll
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
- - - Marguerite de Valois
The heart is like a viper, hissing and spitting poison
at God.
- - - Jonathan Edwards
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much
the heart can hold.
- - - Zelda Fitzgerald
If you haven't any charity in your heart, then you
have the worst kind of heart trouble.
- - - Bob Hope
When I was one and twenty
I heard a wise man say,
Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away.
- - - A. E. Housman
Great tranquillity of heart is his who cares for neither
praise nor blame.
- - - Thomas A. Kempis
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven
about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
- - - Martin Luther
My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely
hill.
- - - Fiona Macleod "The Lonely Hunter"
The heart is a free and fetterless thing -
A wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing.
- - - Julia Pardoe "The Captive Greek Girl"
The heart has reasons of which reason has no knowledge.
- - - Blaise Pascal
You don't die of a broken heart, you only wish you
did.
- - - Marilyn Peterson
Time bears away all things, even the heart.
- - - Virgil
QUOTATIONS ABOUT TEARS
Tears are the summer showers to the soul
- - - Alfred Austin
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
- - - John Vance Cheney
Oh, no, it can't be teardrops
'Cause a man ain't supposed to cry.
- - - Dee Clark
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
- - - Marguerite de Valois
Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
- - - Dorothy Parker
Sometimes, even music cannot substitute for tears.
- - - Paul Simon
Tears are the silent language of grief.
- - - Voltaire
And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal.
- - - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
QUOTATIONS ABOUT THE TONGUE
The tongue of man is a twisty thing.
- - - Homer "Iliad"
A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp
tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
- - - Washington Irving
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth
and sharpen my tongue.
- - - Oscar Levant
QUOTATIONS ABOUT THE VOICE
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
- - - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Then read from the treasured volume
The poem of thy choice,
And lend to the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice.
- - - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My tongue is smiling.
- - - Abigail Trillin, age four - On finishing
a dish of chocolate ice cream, quoted by her father Calvin Trillin,
"Alice, Let’s Eat "
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