Body Quotes

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawa

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

Alice Walke

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

George Santayana

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

Rene Angelil

to be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else - - Is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight.

E. e. cummings

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.

T. H. White

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

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

Margaret Fulle

To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Buddha

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

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

The true Church is not an organization, nor does one join it through the noisy mechanics of denominational machinery. Rather it is a living organism, a body, and believers are joined to it by the quiet working of the Holy Spirit.

Cornelius Stam

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.

Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice.

Leon Lessinge

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

James Thurbe

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

Plato

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

Alanis Morissette

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.

Eduard Hanslick

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Alan Alda

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

John Blake

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

Lord Chesterfield

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975

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

Groucho Marx

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

Plato

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Pythagoras

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

The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Charles Schwa

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

Buddha

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

Winston Spencer Churchill

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Unknown

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

I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

John Oliver Hobbes