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EXERCISE QUOTES
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Stein, Gertrude
In theTatler, no.147,18 Mar.
Also attributed to Addison.
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Women are supposed to be very calm generally:
but women feel just as men feel: they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer - it is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.
-Bronte, Charlotte
Jane Eyre, ch.12.
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He that in his studies wholly applies himself to labour and exercise,
and neglects meditation, loses his time, and he that only applies himself to meditation, and neglects labour and exercise, only wanders and loses himself.
- Confucius or K'ung Fu-tse, 'The MasterK'ung'
Quoted in Colin Jarman
The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
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Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.
- Coward, Sir Noel
Quoted in Colin Jarman
The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
God never made his work, for man to mend.
- Dryden,John
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'To Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick, you shouldn't take it.
- Ford, Henry
Attributed. US businessman, grandson of Henry Ford,
president of the Ford Motor Co from 1945 and chairman from 1960.
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Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.
- James, Henry
'The Art of Fiction', collected in Partial Portraits (1988).
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
- Lorenz, Konrad
('The So-Called Evil', translated by Marjorie Latzke as On Aggression,1966), ch.2.
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It asks more steadiness, self-control, ay, and manly courage, than any other exercise.You must take as well as give, eye to eye, toe to toe, and arm to arm.
- Peel, Sir Robert of boxing.
Quoted in John Boyle O'Reilly
Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport (1888).
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To curle on the ice, does greatly please, Being a manly Scottish exercise; It clears the Brains, stirs up the Native Heat, And gives a gallant appetite for Meat.
- Penecuik, Dr Alex
Quoted in Colin Jarman
The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
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Exercise? I get it on the golf course.When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
- Skelton, Red (Richard), comedian \ entertainer Attributed.
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I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome.
- Twain, Mark (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Quoted in Colin Jarman
The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
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