Body Lead

Famous quotes containing the words body and/or lead:

“Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers’ stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases ... but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, ‘tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.”
—Robert Burton (1577–1640)

“I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)