Body Quotes
Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.Unknown
The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels.Theodor Herzl
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.John Oliver Hobbes
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.Bruce Cockburn
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.Seneca
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.Heywood Broun
If you have a body, you are an athlete.Bill Bowerman
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.Martha Graham
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.Elizabeth Bowen
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.Whitney Young
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - It saves so much trouble.Rudyard Kipling
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.George Santayana
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.E. M. Forste
The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.Winston Spencer Churchill
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.Salvador Dali
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.Douglas MacArthu
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
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)
Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.Doctor Who
Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.Ivern Ball
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.Norman Vincent Peale
Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.Anne Sexton
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
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 really love anybody with whom we never laugh.Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others, 1912
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
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.Rebecca Johnson
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.William Shakespeare
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.Jim
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
