Definition of body

"body" in the noun sense

1. body, organic structure

the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being

"he felt as if his whole body were on fire"

2. body

a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity

"the whole body filed out of the auditorium"

"the student body"

"administrative body"

3. body, dead body

a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person

"they found the body in the lake"

4. body

an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects

"heavenly body"

5. torso, trunk, body

the body excluding the head and neck and limbs

"they moved their arms and legs and bodies"

6. body

a collection of particulars considered as a system

"a body of law"

"a body of doctrine"

"a body of precedents"

7. consistency, consistence, substance, body

the property of holding together and retaining its shape

"wool has more body than rayon"

"when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake"

8. body

the central message of a communication

"the body of the message was short"

9. body

the main mass of a thing

10. soundbox, body

a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin)

11. body

the external structure of a vehicle

"the body of the car was badly rusted"

"body" in the verb sense

1. body, personify

invest with or as with a body give body to

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Quotations for body

As brisk as a body-louse. [ Proverb ]

Plumpness or fulness of body. [ French ]

O wild and wondrous midnight.
There is a might in thee
To make the charmed body
Almost like spirit be,
And give it some faint glimpses
Of immortality! [ Lowell ]

Here lies the body of Ann Mann,
Who lived an old woman,
And died an old Mann. [ Epitaph ]

A feeble body weakens the mind. [ Rousseau ]

Here lies the body of John Mound
Lost at sea and never found. [ Epitaph ]

Night is the Sabbath of mankind.
To rest the body and the mind. [ Butler ]

God made no body to forsake him. [ Proverb ]

The soul and the body are enemies. [ A. de Musset ]

Body cannot teach wisdom; God only. [ Emerson ]

We disjoint the mind like the body. [ Joubert ]

The soul shares not the body's rest. [ Maturin ]

You may bring up the body to satisfy. [ Law Writ ]

The body, - that is dust; the soul, -
It is a bud of eternity. [ Nathaniel Culverwell ]

Here lies the body of Johnny Haskell,
A lying, thieving, cheating rascal;
He always lied, and now he lies,
He has no soul and cannot rise. [ Epitaph ]

The body is the workhouse of the soul. [ Proverb ]

Modesty is the conscience of the body. [ Balzac ]

The body's wisdom to conceal the mind. [ Young ]

Here lies the body of Jonathan Ground,
Who was lost at sea and never found. [ Epitaph ]

Absent in body, but present in spirit. [ St Paul ]

The passions are the voice of the body. [ Rousseau ]

It is the mind that makes the body rich. [ William Shakespeare ]

My fate cries out,
And makes each petty artery in this body
As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven;
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy.
The silver link, the silken tie.
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind. [ Walter Scott ]

Strength of body is none of the virtues. [ Proverb ]

Music to the mind is as air to the body. [ Plato ]

Death only this mysterious truth unfolds,
The mighty soul how small a body holds. [ Dryden ]

The body is sooner dressed than the soul. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The soul has more diseases than the body. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Here lies the body of Jonathan Near
Whose mouth it stretched from ear to ear.
Tread softly, stranger, o'er this wonder,
For if he yawns, you're gone, by thunder! [ Epitaph ]

A fiery soul, which, working out its way.
Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,
And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. [ John Dryden ]

The body charms because the soul is seen. [ Young ]

The soul needs few things, the body many. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You may bring up the body to make answer. [ Law Writ ]

And there at Venice gave
His body to that pleasant country's earth,
And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,
Under whose colours he had fought so long. [ William Shakespeare ]

A deformed body may have a beautiful soul. [ Proverb ]

All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul. [ Pope ]

When the head aches, all the body feels it. [ Proverb ]

It adds to the glory both of soul and body. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every body's business is nobody's business. [ Proverb ]

Here lies the body of Sarah Sexton,
Who as a wife did never vex one.
We can't say that for her at the next stone. [ Epitaph ]

Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven. [ William Shakespeare ]

Through age both weak in body and oblivious. [ Latimer ]

Man yields to custom as he bows to fate,
In all things ruled--mind, body, and estate;
In pain, in sickness, we for cure apply
To them we know not, and we know not why. [ Crabbe ]

Man yields to custom as he bows to fate.
In all things ruled - mind, body and estate;
In pain or sickness, we for cure apply
To them we know not, and we know not why. [ Crabbe ]

No man's body is as strong as his appetites. [ Tillotson ]

He that serves every body is paid by nobody. [ Proverb ]

A weak body is the assassin of a strong mind. [ T. Tilton ]

The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet. [ Vespasian ]

Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation. [ Ovid ]

But when the fox hath once got in his nose,
He'll soon find means to make the body follow. [ William Shakespeare ]

We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind
To suffer with the body. [ William Shakespeare ]

We understood
Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood
Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought.
That one might almost say her body thought. [ Donne ]

Truth is the body of God, and light his shadow. [ Plato ]

'Tis good nature only wins the heart;
It moulds the body to an easy grace
And brightens every feature of the face;
It smoothes the unpolish'd tongue with eloquence
And adds persuasion to the finest sense. [ Stillingfleet ]

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor:
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honor peereth in the meanest habit. [ William Shakespeare ]

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body. [ De Saint-Real ]

Night followeth day, as a shadow followeth a body. [ Aristotle ]

Let the experiment be made on some worthless body.

It is the spirit which builds for itself the body. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Genius! thou gift of Heaven! thou Light divine!
Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!
Oft will the body's weakness check thy force,
Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course;
And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain
Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain;
Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come,
And breathe around her melancholy gloom:
To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine,
And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine. [ Crabbe ]

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. [ J. G. Holland ]

One leg of a lark is worth the whole body of a kite. [ Proverb ]

Poor people are apt to think every body flouts them. [ Proverb ]

A soul in a fat body lies soft, and is loth to rise. [ Proverb ]

Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind. [ La Roche ]

Behold, we live through all things, - famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery.
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body, - but we cannot die.
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn, -
Lo, all things can be borne! [ Elizabeth Akers Allen ]

He had need rise betimes who would please every body. [ Proverb ]

We easily forget our faults, when no body knows them. [ Proverb ]

The soul pays soundly for the house-room in the body. [ Proverb ]

A garden must be looked unto and dressed, as the body. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt. [ Victor Hugo ]

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. [ Publius Syrus ]

You may bring up the body for the purpose of prosecution. [ Law Writ ]

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [ Juvenal ]

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

He is not good himself, who speaks well of every body alike. [ Proverb ]

Thersites's body is as good as Ajax's when neither are alive. [ William Shakespeare ]

But the soul is not the body and the breath is not the flute;
Both together make the music, either marred and all is mute. [ Robert Browning ]

He that has a great nose thinks every body is speaking of it. [ Proverb ]

Cultivation is as necessary to the mind as food is to the body. [ Cicero ]

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body. [ Hazlitt ]

It is an equal failing to trust every body and to trust no body. [ Proverb ]

When hearts hold converse, other parts of the body are in repose. [ Al-Misri ]

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body. [ Seneca ]

Mostly, where the body is finely adorned, the soul is ungarnished. [ Proverb ]

Warm your body by healthful exercise, not by cowering over a stove. [ Thoreau ]

Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has, a friend. [ W. R, Alger ]

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. [ Seneca ]

Conscience is the voice of the soul; passion, the voice of the body. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [ Cicero ]

The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul. [ Theodore Parker ]

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

Sluggishness is stupidity of body, and stupidity sluggishness of spirit. [ Seume ]

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind. [ Juvenal ]

Health and good humor are to the human body like sunshine to vegetation. [ Massillon ]

As many suffer from too much as too little. A fat body makes a lean mind. [ Bovee ]

Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret, sympathetic aid. [ Thomson ]

She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body. [ Swift ]

The heart is the lord of the body, as a man is the lord of his own house. [ Kiu-o ]

Better be a cuckold and not know it, than be none, and every body say so. [ Proverb ]

Except pain of body and remorse of conscience, all our evils are imaginary. [ Rousseau ]

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [ Cicero ]

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity the idleness of the mind. [ Seume ]

Body and soul like peevish man and wife, united jar, and yet are loath to part. [ Young ]

Do not overwork the mind any more than the body; do everything with moderation. [ Bacon ]

Meddlers are the devil's body-lice, they fetch blood from those that feed them. [ Proverb ]

Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter. [ Joubert ]

Like the gardener's dog, that neither eats cabbage himself nor lets any body else. [ Proverb ]

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends.
Dress is a table of your contents. [ Lavater ]

A man who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less. [ Voltaire ]

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body. [ Lord Greville ]

Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation. [ George Herbert ]

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body. [ Cicero ]

Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed. [ Sydney Smith ]

The purse is the master-organ, soul's seat, and true pineal gland of the body social. [ Carlyle ]

Envy is like a fly that passes all a body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. [ Chapman ]

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged. [ J. G. Saxe ]

Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body. [ Levis ]

Man yields to custom as he bows to fate, - in all things ruled, mind, body, and estate. [ Crabbe ]

I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never, ever let you down. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain. [ Lytton ]

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the defects of the mind. [ La Roche ]

We often diet a healthy body into consumption, by plying it with physic instead of food. [ Swift ]

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. [ Wordsworth ]

The charms of wit excite admiration, those of the soul esteem, and those of the body love. [ French ]

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. [ Addison ]

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. [ Locke ]

We're not ourselves when Nature, being oppressed, commands the mind to suffer with the body. [ William Shakespeare ]

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

There cannot be a body of rules without a rationale, and this rationale constitutes the science. [ Sir G. C. Lewis ]

It is the mind that sins, not the body, and where there was no intention there is no criminality. [ Liv ]

Perfect existence can only be where spirit and body are one; an embodied spirit, a spiritual body.

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment. [ Joubert ]

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. [ Charles Lamb ]

A body may as well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better. [ L'Estrange ]

What a dismal, debasing, and confusing element is that of a sick body on the human soul or thinking part! [ Carlyle ]

The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order. [ Beecher ]

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. [ Bacon ]

Keep but ever looking, whether with the body's eye or the mind's, and you will soon find something to look on. [ Robert Browning ]

The eloquent blood spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, you might have almost said her body thought. [ Donne ]

The whole body of the pure mathematics is absolutely useless to ninety-nine out of every hundred who study them. [ T. S. Grimke ]

A sound mind in a sound body, if the former be the glory of the latter, the latter is indispensable to the former. [ Edwards ]

Never add artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice until thou findest that time hath decayed thy natural heat. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

There needs not strength to he added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. [ Jesus ]

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. [ Schiller ]

Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy. The life of the imagination, as of the body, disappears when we pursue it. [ Willmott ]

By examining the tongue of a patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. [ Justin ]

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body. [ Bacon ]

One writer excels at a plan or a title-page; another works away at the body of the book; and a third is a dab hand at an index. [ Goldsmith ]

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social - I mean a purse? [ Carlyle ]

A wound from a tongue is worse than a wound from the sword; the latter affects only the body - the former, the spirit, the soul. [ Pythagoras ]

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. [ Georges Sand ]

Man is composed of two parts, body and soul, of which the one is corporeal, the other separated from all combination with matter. [ Cicero ]

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. [ Charles Buxton ]

The Soul is born old, but it grows young; that is the comedy of life. The Body is born young and grows old; that is Life's tragedy. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. [ Colton ]

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun; the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying influence from the want of a body. [ Colton ]

Instruction is to the proletary what liberty is to the slave: the latter emancipates the body, the former emancipates the intelligence. [ E. de Girardin ]

Sects of men are apt to be shut up in sectarian ideas of their own, and to be less open to new general ideas than the main body of men. [ Matthew Arnold ]

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

Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions. [ C. H. Spurgeon ]

Logic is the art of thinking well; the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way. [ Kames ]

Of what is man certain? What lasts? What passes? What is chimerical? What is real? . . . Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt. [ Victor Hugo ]

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. [ Lord Kames ]

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb. [ Johnson ]

The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often succumbs and goes into a decline. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole. [ Sir W. Hamilton ]

The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast, that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way - an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body. [ Hazlitt ]

Books produce the same effect on the mind that diet does on the body; they may either impart no salutary nutriment, or convey that which is pernicious. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is, of a state of progress and change. [ John Ruskin ]

His last day places man in the same state as he was before he was born; nor after death has the body or soul any more feeling than they had before birth. [ Pliny the Elder ]

To smell a fresh turf of earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul. Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return. [ Fuller ]

There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it. [ Plutarch ]

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Brevity is the body and soul of wit. It is wit itself, for it alone isolates sufficiently for contrasts; because redundancy or diffuseness produces no distinctions. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

Exaggeration is not only one form of falsehood, it is one of its worst forms: since the swollen and contagious body gains admission by walking in upon healthy legs. [ Berz ]

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole. [ Seneca ]

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualisation of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men. [ Whipple ]

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. [ Carlyle ]

Is not the mighty mind, that son of heaven! By tyrant life dethroned, imprisoned, pained? By death enlarged, ennobled, deifyed? Death but entombs the body; life the soul. [ Young ]

A nobleness and elevation of mind, together with firmness of constitution, gives lustre and dignity to the aspect, and makes the soul, as it were, shine through the body. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty. [ Mrs. Stowe ]

Poetry incorporates those spirits which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; and sheds the perfume of those flowers which spring up but never bear any seed. [ Jean Paul ]

Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. [ Bolingbroke ]

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting, and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying; walking exercises the body, praying exercises the soul, fasting cleanses both. [ Quarles ]

Pray for and work for fullness of life above everything; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Gravity, with all its pretensions, was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it, viz., a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition. [ Addison ]

The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body. It preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and affections which can possibly befall us. [ Addison ]

It is from Cadmus, the inventor of the alphabet, this ingenious art comes to us of painting words, speaking to the eyes, and by the different form of traced figures, giving color and body to the thoughts. [ De Brebeuf ]

People or Persons? The meaning of people is a body of persons regarded collectively, a nation; hence the obvious inaccuracy of the expression, Many people think so. Persons is preferable in any such sense. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists. [ Rousseau ]

Sir Anthony Absolute, two or three years before Evelina appeared, spoke the sense of the great body of sober fathers and husbands when he pronounced the circulating library an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. [ Macaulay ]

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated; by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. [ Addison ]

Rely on principles; walk erect and free, not trusting to bulk of body, like a wrestler, for one should not be unconquerable in the sense that an ass is. Who then is unconquerable? He whom the inevitable cannot overcome. [ Epictetus ]

He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it. [ Montaigne ]

What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision! [ Charnock ]

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. [ Burton ]

We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleep; and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason; and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

He that has no resources of mind, is more to be pitied than he who is in want of necessaries for the body; and to be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others, bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. [ Colton ]

The grave is a sacred workshop of nature! a chamber for the figure of the body; death and life dwell here together as man and wife. They are one body, they are in union; God has joined them together, and what God hath joined together let no man put asunder. [ Hippel ]

Without attempting a formal definition of the word, I am inclined to consider rhetoric, when reduced to a system in books, as a body of rules derived from experience and observation, extending to all communications by language, and designed to make it efficient. [ W. E. Channing ]

The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions. [ Burke ]

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receives. [ Colton ]

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke. [ Pope ]

Nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. [ Voltaire ]

Other parts of the body assist the speaker, but these speak themselves. By them we ask, we promise, we invoke, we dismiss, we threaten, we entreat, we deprecate; we express fear, joy, grief, our doubts, our assent, our penitence; we show moderation, profusion; we mark number and time. [ Quintilian ]

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging. [ Schopenhauer ]

That which I have found the best recreation both to my mind and body, whensoever either of them stands in need of it, is music, which exercises at once both body and soul; especially when I play myself; for then, methinks, the same motion that my hands make upon the instrument, the instrument makes upon my heart. [ J. Beveridge ]

There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, - that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all these incorporated spirits and the perfume of all these flowers. [ Richter ]

The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it - a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]

Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body. On the due digestion of facts depends the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigour and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable in the commerce of life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts. [ Burke ]

It is the nature of man to be proud, when man by nature hath nothing to be proud of. He more adorneth the creature than he adoreth the Creator; and makes not only his belly his god, but his body. I am ashamed of their glory whose glory is their shame. If nature will needs have me to be proud of something, I will be proud only of this, that I am proud of nothing. [ Arthur Warwick ]

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will last you until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. [ Trollope ]

A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation, sober counsels and ingenuous actions, open deportment and sweet carriage, sincere principles and unprejudicate understanding, love of God and selfdenial, peace and confidence, holy prayers and spiritual comfort, and a pleasure of spirit infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

The powers of music are felt or known by all men, and are allowed to work strangely upon the mind and the body, the passions and the blood; to raise joy and grief; to give pleasure and pain; to cure diseases, and the mortal sting of the tarantula; to give motions to the feet as well as the heart; to compose disturbed thoughts; to assist and heighten devotion itself. [ Sir W. Temple ]

The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain. Their happiness consists entirely in present enjoyment. [ Chalmers ]

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions. [ Feltham ]

Posture or Attitude? Each of these words has its appropriate place, and one should not be misapplied for the other. Posture is the mode of placing the body, and may be either natural or assumed. Attitude is always assumed, and is intended to display some grace of the body, or some affection or purpose of the mind. Postures, when natural, accommodate themselves to the convenience of the body; when assumed they may be either serious or ridiculous. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Two things a master commits to his servant's care - the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost. Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it. [ John Flavel ]

body in Scrabble®

The word body is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters body:

BODY
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word body

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The 69 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In body

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body in Words With Friends™

The word body is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters body:

BODY
(54)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word body

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The 74 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In body

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Words within the letters of body

2 letter words in body (2 words)

3 letter words in body (2 words)

4 letter words in body (1 word)

body + 1 blank (1 word)

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Longer words containing body

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