Body Quotes

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

I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Ralph Charell

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

Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.

Ivern Ball

i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.

E. e. cummings

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Samuel Ullman

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

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".

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Martha Graham

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sydney Harris

We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.

John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

J. Krishnamarti

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

Calvin Trillin

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848

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

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.

John Lennon

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

Elmer Davis

Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

Calvin Coolidge, in a telegram, 1919

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.

Steve Prefontaine

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Quentin Crisp

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

George Meredith

Shun praise. Praise leads to self - Delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.

H Hahn Blavatsky

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

H. P. Lovecraft

Your body is just the place your memory calls home.

Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Heywood Broun

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

E e cummings

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Arthur Mille

Get the best out of your body that you can get.

Pat Hall

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

James Thorpe