Body Quotes

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

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

Theodor Herzl

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)

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

J. J. Fumas

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.

Rebecca West

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

Plato

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - Peace is the measure.

George Melton

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

P. B. Medawa

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Alfred North Whitehead

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

Publilius Syrus

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....

Douglas Noel Adams

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

Carl Jung

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".

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

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

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

Tom Robbins

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Arthur Mille

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature

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

Johnny Carson, Playboy Interview - December 1967

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Baltasar Gracian

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

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

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

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.

Edward Bedore

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer?

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.

Woodrow Wilson

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

G. K. Chesterton

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975

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)

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

Doctor Who

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

Paul Fussell

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Casey Stengel

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

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

Buddha

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

James Thorpe