"I was told that my diet was..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir
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“From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.”
“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”
“It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.”
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“The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.”
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“Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.”
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“It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.”
“Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.”
“Your body is the house you live in. If you destroy it...you have to leave!”