Body Quotes

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

Gertrude Stein

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

Jeremy Thorpe

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Rebecca West

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

John Collins

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

Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion.

Publilius Syrus

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....

Douglas Noel Adams

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

Joseph Addison

I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

George Osne

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

Upham

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat 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, The Lonely Life, 1962

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

Elizabeth Bowen

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

A merry Christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world.

Charles Dickens

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.

Jesse Louis Jackson

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

H Hahn Blavatsky

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Benjamin Franklin

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Margaret Fulle

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

George Washington

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

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

Johann von Goethe

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

Jimmy Breslin

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - - And then everybody disagrees.

Boris Marshalov

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Samuel Ullman

If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

Horace Bushnell

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

Martha Graham

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato, The Republic

Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.

Frank W. Woolworth