Body Quotes
Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.Publilius Syrus
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
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?Charlie McCarthy (Edgar Bergen)
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.Edmund Burke
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.David Richerby
What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win - win basis.W. Edwards Deming
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
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.Mark Twain, Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.W. C. Fields
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.Jean Cocteau, Journey to Freedom (1969)
Television is the first truly democratic culture - The first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.Clive Barnes
Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.Helen Gurley Brown
Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have a spiritual body different from that which we now inhabit but it seems to me reasonable to believe that we are weaving our spiritual bodies as we go along.William R. Matthews
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
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.Calvin Trillin
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
Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.Andy Warhol
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.Mark Twain
Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.Sophocles, Antigone
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.Andre Gide, Le traite du Narcisse (1891)
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.Heywood Broun
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.Gertrude Stein
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.Jimmy Breslin
Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body.Miyamoto Musashi
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.Zora Neale Hurston
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.Buddha
A thief believes everybody steals.E. W. Howe
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.Rebecca West
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.Cicero
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.Walter Winchell
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.Thomas Jefferson
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
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.Eugene Delacroix
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or... of something else.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.Isadora Duncan
When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush' just once.Mrs Patrick Campbell, to George Bernard Shaw
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.Casey Stengel
