Logo
The lungs have been usually regarded as the great fire-place of th

The lungs have been usually regarded as the great fire-place of the human system; but whether or not this is so, the stronger the lungs are the better, without a doubt. – William Andrus Alcott (1798–1859), The Physiology of Marriage, 1855 [On or

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Body
category

The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Body

That which matters hums within our guts. – Terri Guillemets, “Inner being,” 2008

Category:
Body

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
Body

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Body

Random Quotes

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 26 October 1924

Category:
Miscellaneous

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. – Leopold Stokowski

Category:
Music

A Hibernian sage once wrote that there are three things a man never forgets: The girl of his early youth, a devoted teacher, and a great horse. – C.J.J. Mullen

Category:
Horses

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby it. – Jerome K. Jerome

Category:
Baby, Babies