Body Quotes

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Seneca

Who could follow Carson? Well, believe me, somebody can - And will.

Johnny Carson, Playboy Interview - December 1967

My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood is thicker than water, but your body already has all the blood it needs. You will always need water.

Eric Pio

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

J. J. Fumas

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

Elvin Stackman

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

Barbara Howa

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - The trees, the clouds, everything.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

P. G. Wodehouse

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

I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Groucho Marx

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

John Adams

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

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Max Beerbohm

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Henry David Thoreau, Vol. 2, p. 318 Houghton Mifflin

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

Jerry Coleman

What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

Ron Nesen

I have such poor vision I can date anybody.

Garry Shandling

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Earl of Chesterfield

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often the should appear.

Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital

By the end, everybody had a label - - Pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

Jerry Rubin

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Dahlberg

As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.

Edward Bedore

The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels.

Theodor Herzl

Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion.

Publilius Syrus

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Nobody picks on a strong man.

Charles Atlas

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Edvard Munch

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Herbert Hoove