Body Quotes
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.Cicero
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.Plato
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.Eric Hoffe
Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody.Benjamin Franklin
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.Cicero
It is easy to fly into a passion - - Anybody can do that - - But to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - - That is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.Aristotle
Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.Karl von Bonstetten
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.George Washington
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.John Donne
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.Elizabeth Bowen
Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.Jesse Jackson
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.William Shakespeare
Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice.Leon Lessinge
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.Jean Cocteau, Journey to Freedom (1969)
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.Elbert Hubbard
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others, 1912
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.John Martin Fische
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.Albert Camus
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.J. Krishnamarti
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.Steve Prefontaine
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.Andre Gide, Le traite du Narcisse (1891)
A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.Barbara Burrow
Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.Bruce Cockburn
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.Buddha
Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.Ivern Ball
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.Jeremy Thorpe
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.Orison Swett Marden
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.Don Herold
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
Who is rich He that is content. Who is that Nobody.Benjamin Franklin
