Body Quotes

Keep cool and you command everybody.

Louis de Saint - Just

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

John Adams

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

Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Spencer Churchill

Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.

The Law of Thum

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Henry David Thoreau, Vol. 2, p. 318 Houghton Mifflin

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

Sophocles, Antigone

When money talks, nobody notices what grammar it uses.

Anonymous

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

Anonymous

Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.

Frank W. Woolworth

Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body.

Miyamoto Musashi

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sir Richard Steele

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win - win basis.

W. Edwards Deming

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

Calvin Coolidge, in a telegram, 1919

Nobody picks on a strong man.

Charles Atlas

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

Tom Robbins

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

William Shakespeare

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

C. C. Colton

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

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Alain

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

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.

James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Casey Stengel

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - Peace is the measure.

George Melton

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Henry David Thoreau

The networks are not some chicken - Coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

Ralph Nade

A humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and, second, that nobody else is either.

Homer McLin

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

George Bernard Shaw

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

John Collins

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance.

Edgar Bergen

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Cato, Roman statesman and historian

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beeche