exercises

Asthe strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

—Poe, EdgarAllan

Their exercises are unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.

—Josephus, Flavius

I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.

—Self,Will

I have none of the infirmities of old age, and have lost several I had in my youth. The grand cause is, the good pleasure of God, who does whatever pleases him. The chief means are:1. My constantly rising at four, for about fifty years. 2. My generally preaching at five in the morning; one of the most healthy exercises in the world. 3. My never travelling less, by sea or land, than four thousand five hundred miles in a year.

—Wesley,John

   Lord, remove these exercises from the Sabbath. Any exercise which withdraweth from godliness either upon the Sabbath or on any other day, is wicked and to be forbidden.

—Stubbes, Philip

I believe every human has a finite number of heart- beats.I don't intend towasteanyof minerunning around doing exercises.

—Armstrong, Neil A(lden)