Body Functions Quotes

If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.

Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions - what it does to the heart, the circulation, the immune system, the digestive function, the liver.

Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself

Your digestive system is your body's Fun House, whereby food goes on a long, dark, scary ride, taking all kinds of unexpected twists and turns, being attacked by vicious secretions along the way, and not knowing until the last minute whether it will be turned into a useful body part or ejected into the Dark Hole by Mister Sphincter.

I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.

In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say all kinds of things, but the other place is supposed to keep quiet. But maybe our lower colons have something interesting to say. Maybe we should listen to them. Farts are human, more human than a lot of people I know. I think we should bring them out of the water closet and into the parlor.

I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air: Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection.

What would happen to the individual if all the functions of the body were placed under the control of the consciousness is what would happen to a nation in which all individual activities were directed by government.

I wouldn't fart in front of my wife, and she wouldn't do it in front of me.

Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.

The fifty trillion cells in your body are constantly talking to each other as they keep your heart beating, digest your food, eliminate toxins, protect you from infection and disease, and carry out the countless other functions that keep you alive. While these processes may seem out of your conscious control, hundreds of studies have shown that nothing holds more power over the body than the mind.

Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to the living body at all times, from the first moment until death.

You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.

Why be uptight about bowel movements and sex? We all have sex. We all have penises -- except for those of us who have vaginas.

A person who can break wind is not dead.

It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.

If we think of the immune system as a machine, then we are far from even knowing all of its parts.

It's hard to think of a single human function that technology hasn't somehow altered, apart perhaps from burping. That's pretty much all we have left.

How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?

There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind.

Our skin is the largest organ and one of the ways we eliminate waste.

Girls don't poop, so don't claim you do. You can fart - because farting is funny - but we don't want to know that you poop.