George Saintsbury Quotes

The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.

It's the fact that no matter how bad it's gotten, the body wants to be healthy. The body wants to bounce back. When you do these changes, you do these small changes every single day, and you trust the process of what you're doing. You really do make lasting changes onto your body.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul

No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.

You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

My body's feeling sore, but my soul is feeling pretty good.

The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

A body is merely a vehicle. The deepest emotions are experienced through the soul.

I have a thorough understanding of nutrition, and I feed my body only foods that support health.

My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate.

The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God

The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'

If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if the soul migrates into a brute beast, it follows the body outside, as a guardian spirit follows a man. For there could never be a rational soul in an irrational being.

Body and soul: a horse harnessed beside an ox.

... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.

Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the body, it may well be possible that a psychological tremor generates corresponding one through association.

There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.