Body Quotes

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

Elvin Stackman

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

Jimmy Breslin

Nobody picks on a strong man.

Charles Atlas

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self - Concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

S Hayakawa

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

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Oscar Wilde

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann von Goethe

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Max Beerbohm

If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

Horace Bushnell

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Henry David Thoreau, Vol. 2, p. 318 Houghton Mifflin

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

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

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

By the end, everybody had a label - - Pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

Jerry Rubin

Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

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

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

Carl Jung

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

P. B. Medawa

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

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)

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers, New York Times Aug. 31 1924

To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

E e cummings

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Maya Angelou

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

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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

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

James Thorpe

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

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

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Earl of Chesterfield

To be somebody, you must last.

Ruth Gordon

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

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin

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

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711