The loathsome mask has fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise: but man Passionless?öno, yet free from guilt or pain, Which were, for his will made or suffered them, Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves, From chance, and death, and mutability, The clogs of that which else might oversoar The loftiest star of unascended heaven, Pinnacled dim in the intense inane.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  Prometheus Unbound, act 3, sc.4, l.193^204.

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 ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).