Woman is the symbol of moral and physical beauty. [ T. Gautier ]
There are moral as well as physical assassinations. [ Voltaire ]
Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical. [ Yogi Berra ]
Women are in the moral world what flowers are in the physical. [ S. Marechal ]
Even in war, moral power is to physical as three parts out of four. [ Napoleon I ]
Physical beauty in man has become as rare as his moral beauty has always been. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Constant and exclusive devotion to mere physical necessities, degrades man to the rank of an animal. [ Lamennais ]
White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments. [ Theophile Gautier ]
War--the trade of barbarians, and the art of bringing the greatest physical force to bear on a single point. [ Napoleon ]
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution. [ Charles Dickens ]
The intellect of woman bears the same relationship to that of man as her physical organization; it is inferior in power and different in kind. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
Psychical pain is more easily borne than physical: and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former. [ Heinrich Heine ]
Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God. [ Jeremy Bentham ]
There is a great difference between nationality and race. Nationality is the miracle of political independence. Race is the principle of physical analogy. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]
There is a moral excellence attainable by all who have the will to strive after it; but there is an intellectual and physical superiority which is above the reach of our wishes, and is granted to a few only. [ Crabb ]
Error soon passes away, unless upheld by restraint on thought. History tells us (and the lesson is invaluable) that the physical force which has put down free inquiry has been the main bulwark of the superstitions and illusions of past ages. [ Channing ]
The physical plagues and the calamities of human nature have rendered society necessary. Society has added to the evils of nature; the imperfections of society have created the necessity for government, and government adds still further to the woes of society: this is the whole history of humanity. [ Chamfort ]
Throughout the pages of history we are struck with the fact that our remarkable men possessed mothers of uncommon talents for good or bad, and great energy of character; it would almost seem from this circumstance, that the impress of the mother is more frequently stamped on the boy, and that of the father upon the girl - we mean the mental intellectual impress, in distinction from the physical ones. Mothers will do well to remember that their impress is often stamped upon their sons. [ Helen Mar ]