Body Quotes

Ruth gordon - to be somebody, you must last....
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
Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body - - I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
Florence Nightingale
Today my spirit is going to school while my body stays in bed.
Bill Watterson, "Calvin", Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
Plato
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead
It is easy to fly into a passion - - Anybody can do that - - But to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - - That is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
Aristotle
Bob dylan - i like america, just as everybody else does. i...
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
There is only one boss the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton
Nobody picks on a strong man.
Charles Atlas
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Brendan Francis Behan
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.
Elbert Hubbard
About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoove
To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E. E. Cummings
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
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
Henry David Thoreau
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
Anybody who accepts mediocrity - In school, on the job, in life - Is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.
Charles Knight
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
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.
Helen Rowland
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
D. H. Lawrence
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
E e cummings
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.
Tyron Edwards
After 3, a body has a mind of its own.
H Hahn Blavatsky
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Biologist P. B. Medawa
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.
Kahlil Gibran
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
Alanis Morissette
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.
The Law of Thum
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
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of America (1936)
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
John Blake
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
Buddha