Body Quotes

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

Upham

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Frank Moore Colby

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Arthur Mille

A home without books is a body without soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

Steve Prefontaine

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

H. L. Mencken

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Rebecca West

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

Jim

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.

Joe Theismann, Former quarterback

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

H. L. Mencken

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

Frank Zappa

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do and find the cure all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

Richard Feynman

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

Whitney Young

The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

George S. Arundale

Nobody wants justice.

Alan Dershowitz

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Aubrey Menen

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

James Arthur Baldwin

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

J. B. Priestley

Never give up on anybody.

Hubert Humphrey

Anybody who accepts mediocrity - In school, on the job, in life - Is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Charles Knight

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

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.

Vince Lombardi

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis

My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - My dearest pleasure when free.

Mary Shelley

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Jane E. Brody

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960.

John Lennon

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Johann Von Schille

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Orison Swett Marden

When money talks, nobody notices what grammar it uses.

Anonymous

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765