Body Quotes

When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush' just once.

Mrs Patrick Campbell, to George Bernard Shaw

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

Frank Zappa

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - Peace is the measure.

George Melton

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Seneca

The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Spencer Churchill

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

Heywood Broun

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

Jimmy Breslin

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Seneca

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Mark Twain

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

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

J. B. Priestley

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.

Herbert B. Swope

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 knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Gertrude Stein

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - And be lenient to everybody else.

Henry Ward Beeche

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.

Paul Fussell

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, Satires

There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.

Barbara Howa

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Golda Mei

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Alice Walke

Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me.

Albert Einstein

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard - Beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.

Unknown

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

George Osne

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Joe Theismann

Emc Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light. Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc.

Albert Einstein

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

Eugene Delacroix

Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)

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 secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.

Aristotle Onassis

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Enoch Powell

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Cicero