Body Quotes

Nobody wants justice.

Alan Dershowitz

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

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Heywood Broun

In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.

Haniel Long

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

C. C. Colton

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

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

Calvin Trillin

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

Pythagoras

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

P. B. Medawa

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

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

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Aubrey Menen

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

E. M. Forste

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

George Washington

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

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers, New York Times Aug. 31 1924

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture the book widens and deepens with our years.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Robert Anton Wilson

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Seneca

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....

Douglas Noel Adams

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.

Woodrow Wilson

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

George Bernard Shaw

If the camel once get his nose in a tent, the body will soon follow.

Saudi Prove

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sydney Harris

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

Unknown

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Charles Dudley Warne

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

Anne Sexton

Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.

George Ade