Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

You can't wrestle forever. It's a very physically taxing job. There's no doubt about it. Physically, and more importantly, mentally.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

With 'Strictly,' I am mentally and physically knackered: everything aches. I knew it would be hard, but I never thought it would be this tough.

I felt, when I was 20, I wasn't quite ready for the physical contact of 82 games. Mentally, it was tough. I forgot what city we were in most of the time. I can't even imagine going through it at 18 or 19.

Being tired isn't anything. What's important is the mind. The body being tired isn't important. You can get over the body being tired by resting for a half-hour or an hour. What's important is whether the mind is tired.

Only players can understand what it's like, travelling and playing every three days, it gets on top of you.

When you're hurting after a match, the last thing you want to do is get in a car or on a plane to get to the next city.

A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.

you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that.

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

The soul is the weariest part of the body.

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.

According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self.

It has been said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they are more lasting than those of the body; but I do not remember to have heard it said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they make those of the body more lasting.