Body Quotes

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

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

Saudi Prove

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

George Ade

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

Everybody likes to go their own way - - To choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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

Herbert Hoove

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - And be lenient to everybody else.

Henry Ward Beeche

Nobody does good to man with impunity.

Franois Auguste Ren Rodin

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

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

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03 - 20 - 05

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

E. M. Forste

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

George Bernard Shaw

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beeche

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Baltasar Gracian

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Samuel Ullman

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

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

Andrew Grove, Co - Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.

John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981

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

Barbara Howa

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

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

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sir Richard Steele

Get the best out of your body that you can get.

Pat Hall

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

Theodor Herzl

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

C. C. Colton

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

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

Groucho Marx

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

As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.

James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh".

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Michael Landon

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

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