Pange, lingua, gloriosi Corporis mysterium, Sanguinisque pretiosi, Quem in mundi pretium Fructus ventris generosi Rex effudit gentium. Now, my tongue, the mystery telling Of the glorious Body sing, And the Blood, all price excelling, Which the Gentiles' Lord and King, In aVirgin's womb once dwelling, Shed for this world's ransoming.

-Aquinas, StThomas
  Pange Lingua Gloriosi, known as the Corpus Christi hymn (translated by J M Neale et al).

You too can have a body like mine!

-Atlas, Charles
c.1922  Advertising slogan.

His harmonical and ingenious soul did lodge in a beautiful and well proportioned body. He was a spare man†. He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College.

-Aubrey,John
  Of Milton. Brief Lives (published1813),'John Milton'.

I sometimesthink that running hasgiven me a glimpse of the greatest freedom a man can ever know, because it results in the simultaneous liberation of both body and mind.

-Bannister, Sir Roger Gilbert
  First Four Minutes.

L'endroit le plus e¤  rotique d'un corps n'est-il pas la'   o  u' le ve"  tement ba"  ille? Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?

-Barthes, Roland
  Le Plaisir du texte.

Ah! Seigneur! donnez-moi la force et le courage De contempler mon coeur et mon corps sans de¤  go u" t. Lord! give me the strength and the courage To see my heart and my body without disgust.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Les Fleurs du mal,'Un Voyage   a' Cyth e' re'.

Upon my buried body lay Lightly gentle earth

-Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher,John
^11 The Maid's Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out of the window.

-Beckett, Samuel
  Malone Dies.

I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easyat Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champme¤  dy. I shall not be there, I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

-Bene¤  t, StephenVincent
  'American Names'. Bury My Heart  At Wounded Knee was used by Dee Brown as the title of a book on the Indian genocide (1971).

La solitude re¤  tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a"  me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body no less than those of the soul.

-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre,Jacques-Henri
  Paul et Virginie.

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast intohell. And ifthy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 5:29^30.

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave ittothe disciples, and said,Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 26:26^8.

O wretchedmanthat Iam! whoshall deliver mefromthe body of this death?

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans 7:24.

   The Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said,Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying,This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians11:23^6.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians 6:19.

   The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life: Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee, and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving.

-Book of Common Prayer
Holy Communion.

With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

-Book of Common Prayer
Solemnization of Marriage, Wedding.

We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope ofthe Resurrectionto eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

-Book of Common Prayer
Burial of the Dead, Committal.

We therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for theresurrection of the body, (when the Sea shall give up her dead).

-Book of Common Prayer
Forms of Prayer to be Used at Sea,  At the Burial of their Dead at Sea.

   Naught broken save this body, lost but breath; Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long peace there But onlyagony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'Peace'.