Body Quotes

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

Orson Scott Card, Treasure Box

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

Gertrude Stein

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

Johann von Goethe

If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.

Japanese Proverb, Also quoted in the movie Rising Sun

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

Lord Chesterfield

What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Baltasar Gracian

A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.

Author Unknown

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

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift Rom. 126 - 8.

Bruce Kempe

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Carl Jung

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

Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848

Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.

Bruce Cockburn

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthu

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.

John Petit - Senn

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

Charlie McCarthy (Edgar Bergen)

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

H. L. Mencken

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Denis Watley

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Erma Bombeck

Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.

George Ade

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.

Shakti Gawain

If you have a body, you are an athlete.

Bill Bowerman

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

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent - Gyorgyi, in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)

When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.

Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl

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

Edgar Bergen