Body Quotes

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

H. P. Lovecraft

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

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

Pythagoras

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

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

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records most time spent in the penalty box and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody.

Happy Gilmore

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

Groucho Marx

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Heywood Broun

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Cicero

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

Sophocles, Antigone

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others, 1912

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

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never give up on anybody.

Hubert Humphrey

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

George Bernard Shaw

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

P. B. Medawa

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

Gertrude Stein

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

Ralph Charell

Everybody wants to be somebody nobody wants to grow.

Johann von Goethe

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Edvard Munch

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

A merry Christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world.

Charles Dickens

Your body is just the place your memory calls home.

Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus

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

Unknown

If you want to sue somebody, just get a little plastic skeleton and lay it in their yard. Then tell them their ants ate your baby.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

C. C. Colton

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Jimmy Breslin

If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.

Japanese Proverb, Also quoted in the movie Rising Sun

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 man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard - Beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

Henry David Thoreau, O Magazine, May 2004

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthu