Body Quotes

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.

Alexander Pope

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.

James Arthur Baldwin

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

Mark Twain

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.

Bryce Courtenay

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.

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

Martha Graham

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)

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".

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

H. P. Lovecraft

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Edvard Munch

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)

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Charles Buxton

Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.

Unknown

If you want to sue somebody, just get a little plastic skeleton and lay it in their yard. Then tell them their ants ate your baby.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)

As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.

Edward Bedore

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

Each body has its art...

Gwendolyn Brooks

After 3, a body has a mind of its own.

H Hahn Blavatsky

Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.

African Prove

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

Henry David Thoreau, O Magazine, May 2004

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Maya Angelou

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

Benjamin Franklin

Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon - - And with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.

Mildred & Victor Goertzel

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

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Cato, Roman statesman and historian

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

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

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

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Fritz Perls