Body Quotes

to be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else - - Is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight.

E. e. cummings

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

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

Anne Sexton

When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president.

Henry Kissinge

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

Kahlil Gibran

No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.

Honore de Balzac

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)

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 can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

A. J. Liebling

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Don Herold

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.

James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

Sophocles, Antigone

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

Pat Hall

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Dahlberg

The true Church is not an organization, nor does one join it through the noisy mechanics of denominational machinery. Rather it is a living organism, a body, and believers are joined to it by the quiet working of the Holy Spirit.

Cornelius Stam

The networks are not some chicken - Coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

Ralph Nade

A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.

Unknown

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

Sy Parrish, One Hour Photo

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

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

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

Jim

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Cato, Roman statesman and historian

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)

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent - Gyorgyi, in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Aldous Huxley

The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.

Dio Lewis

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

Charlie McCarthy (Edgar Bergen)

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.

Kahlil Gibran

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others, 1912

We relish news of our heroes, Forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Helen Hayes