Terry-Thomas - Epicurus - Walter Whitman - William Shakespeare - John Robinson - Numbers 11:4 - Joel 2:28 - Romans 13:14 - Job 7:5 - John Webster - Mahatma Gandhi -
I’ll have the flesh! Terry-Thomas, to waiter and slavering over woman at dinner table
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind those of the past and future as well as the present. Epicurus
And your very flesh shall be a great poem. Walter Whitman
Fat Falstaff sweats to death and lards the lean earth as he walks along. Henry IV I starring Roger Allam & Oliver Cotton & Jamie Parker & Joseph Timms & Sam Crane & Jason Baughan & Patrick Brennan & William Gaunt & Christopher Godwin & Daon Broni et al, director Dominic Dromgoole, Hal, Globe Theatre, Sky Arts 2012
I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty. ibid.
Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty. William Shakespeare, I Henry IV III iii, Falstaff
A pound of man’s flesh taken from a man
Is not so estimable, profitable neither,
As flesh of mutton, beeves, or goats, I say. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice I iii 164-166, Shylock to Antonio and Bassiano
I think Lawrence tried to portray this relation as in a real sense an act of holy communion. For him flesh was sacramental of the spirit. John Robinson, The Times 28th October 1960
And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? Numbers 11:4
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh. Joel 2:28
Make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. Romans 13:14
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. Job 7:5
What’s this flesh? A little crudded milk, fantastical puff-paste. John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, bad boy, BBC 2014
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh. Mahatma Gandhi