Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Abdicate, v.: to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. – Author Unknown

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? – Katherine Mansfield, Bliss and Other Stories

The body is a bundle of careful compromises. – Randolph Nesse and George Williams, Why We Get Sick