Body Quotes

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sir Richard Steele

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

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Pythagoras

Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Anatole France

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

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

Mark Twain

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.

Ralph Charell

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Denis Watley

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

Martha Graham

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

John Donne

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Norman Vincent Peale

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

George Bernard Shaw

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

Richard Pryor, Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)

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

Edward Dahlberg

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Alfred A. Montapert

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Alan Alda

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

Carl Gustav Jung

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 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

To be somebody, you must last.

Ruth Gordon

I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Groucho Marx

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Margaret Fulle

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others, 1912

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it.

S. I. Hayakawa

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)

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

Whitney Young

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

Menande

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Arthur Mille

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".

There is only one boss the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Sam Walton

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Rebecca West

Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.

Frank W. Woolworth