Body Quotes

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

Stephen Leacock, 1912

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

Isadora Duncan

Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.

Vince Lombardi

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Tallulah Bankhead

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

Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of America (1936)

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.

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

Quentin Crisp

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

Anne Sexton

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Thomas Mann

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

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

Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.

Ivern Ball

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

Tyron Edwards

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Orison Swett Marden

A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.

Barbara Burrow

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

Woody Allen

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

Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, Satires

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.

Author Unknown

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance.

Edgar Bergen

Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold.

Zelda

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

George Meredith

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

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

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Eric Hoffe

Never give up on anybody.

Hubert Humphrey

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

Edmund Burke

When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.

Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

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