Body Quotes

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.

Rene Descartes

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

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Kahlil Gibran

To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

E e cummings

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

Edmund Burke

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Martha Graham

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Norman Vincent Peale

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

Elmer Davis

Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.

James Thorpe

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

Ron Nesen

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde

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

Orison Swett Marden

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

Stephen Leacock, 1912

To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Seneca

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

Liberace

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

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03 - 20 - 05

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

Jerry Coleman

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

Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.

Kahlil Gibran

Nobody does good to man with impunity.

Franois Auguste Ren Rodin

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

Vince Lombardi

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.

Robert Byrne

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Miyamoto Musashi

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - It saves so much trouble.

Rudyard Kipling

No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.

Honore de Balzac

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

J. J. Fumas

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin

Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.

Jesse Jackson

Everybody likes to go their own way - - To choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.

Eduard Hanslick