Body

Body

With regard to living things, a body is the physical body of an individual. "Body" often is used in connection with appearance, health issues and death. The study of the workings of the body is physiology.

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Famous quotes containing the word body:

    “By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    ““... Can poet’s thought
    That springs from body and in body falls
    Like this pure jet, now lost amid blue sky,
    Now bathing lily leaf and fish’s scale,
    Be mimicry?””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “It is strange that they will make ado when a man’s body is buried, but not when he thus really and tragically dies, or seems to die.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)