Body Quotes

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

Who is rich He that is content. Who is that Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

H. P. Lovecraft

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 a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.

Ralph Charell

As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here.

Maitri Upanishads

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Martha Graham

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.

Jim Samuels

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco

Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Anatole France

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

Never give up on anybody.

Hubert Humphrey

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

Cato, Roman statesman and historian

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".