Body Quotes

The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Charles Schwa

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Spencer Churchill

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

Alanis Morissette

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

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Martha Graham

Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.

James Thorpe

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

Calvin Trillin

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Charles Dudley Warne

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.

Jim Samuels

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

Cato, Roman statesman and historian

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Mark Twain

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

Barbara Howa

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

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

A. J. Liebling

When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush' just once.

Mrs Patrick Campbell, to George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

George Washington

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

Charlie McCarthy (Edgar Bergen)

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Arthur Mille

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980

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

Theodor Herzl

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

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

Pete Seege

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.

Aristotle Onassis

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.

Jean Cocteau, Journey to Freedom (1969)

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Unknown

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.

Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince".

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

Gertrude Stein

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

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

Herbert Hoove

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

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.

James Arthur Baldwin

Who could follow Carson? Well, believe me, somebody can - And will.

Johnny Carson, Playboy Interview - December 1967

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

John Blake