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Physical Development Library:  Quotations

"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes." ~ Lord Chesterfield

"Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.  We give it orders which make no sense." ~ Henry Miller

"I am dying with the help of too many physicians." ~ Alexander the Great

"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people." ~ Orson Welles

"Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away." ~ Robert Orben

"Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary.  He was just that way.  If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay a hand on you." ~ Herb Shriner

"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles." ~ Sigmund Z. Engel

"Games lubricate the body and the mind." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity." ~ John F. Kennedy

"Albert Einstein discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, "You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers."  ~ Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50

"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."  ~Horace

"Never order food in excess of your body weight." ~ Erma Bombeck

"When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction." ~ Steven Wright

"Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind." ~ Plato

"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body." ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

"How do you build up your bank account? By putting something in it everyday.Your health account is no different. What I do today, I am wearing tomorrow. If I put inferior foods in my body today, I'm going to be inferior tomorrow, it's that simple." ~ Jack LaLanne

"If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet". ~ Jack LaLanne

"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little."  ~ John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society

"One should eat to live, not live to eat."  ~ Cicero, Rhetoricorum LV

"Ask not what you can do for your country -- ask what's for lunch." ~ Orson Welles

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.  ~ Kahlil Gibran

"No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat.  Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office."  ~ George Bernard Shaw

"I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990."  ~ Dave Barry

"Gluttony is not a secret vice."  ~ Orson Welles

"I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness."  ~ Karl Lagerfeld

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