Body Quotes

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

Quentin Crisp

I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

A. J. Liebling

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.

Seneca

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

William Feathe

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960.

John Lennon

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Earl of Chesterfield

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

Novalis

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

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Aldous Huxley

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Lord Chesterfield

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Max Beerbohm

As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.

James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh".

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

Steve Prefontaine

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

My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood is thicker than water, but your body already has all the blood it needs. You will always need water.

Eric Pio

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self - Concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

S Hayakawa

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Johann Von Schille

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Arthur Mille

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Heywood Broun

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.

Woodrow Wilson

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

Pete Seege

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Rathe