Body Quotes

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

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

Jesse Stuart

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

Mark Twain

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

Theodor Herzl

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Plato

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

Biologist P. B. Medawa

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

Henry Mille

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

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Johann Von Schille

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

As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here.

Maitri Upanishads

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

Henry David Thoreau, O Magazine, May 2004

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

James Thurbe

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

H. P. Lovecraft

I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

Isadora Duncan

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Thomas Jefferson

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble.

Carl Gustav Jung

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.

Paul Fussell

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

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Rebecca West

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

Steve Prefontaine

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

Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.

Jesse Jackson

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

Gertrude Stein

If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.

Japanese Proverb, Also quoted in the movie Rising Sun

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Buddha

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

Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.

Doctor Who

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

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

My teen angst has a body count.

Veronica - "Heathers".

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Rathe

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

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

Herbert Hoove

I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - - And then everybody disagrees.

Boris Marshalov