Unintentional Weight Loss

Famous quotes containing the words weight and/or loss:

    “When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “Our loss put six feet under ground
    Is measured by the magnolia’s root;
    Our gain’s the intellectual sound
    Of death’s feet round a weedy tomb.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)