Body Quotes

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

Anne Sexton

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

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

Nobody wants justice.

Alan Dershowitz

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Cicero

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.

Helen Rowland

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

Pat Hall

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.

Elbert Hubbard

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Charles Buxton

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

William Feathe

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.

Jim Samuels

Nobody picks on a strong man.

Charles Atlas

Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon - - And with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.

Mildred & Victor Goertzel

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

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

Jerry Coleman

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.

Barbara Burrow

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - - And then everybody disagrees.

Boris Marshalov

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

Gertrude Stein

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

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

Andrew Grove, Co - Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Charlie McCarthy (Edgar Bergen)

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Erma Bombeck

Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me.

Albert Einstein

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

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

Menande

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis

We relish news of our heroes, Forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Helen Hayes

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

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

Sir Richard Steele

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

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

Novalis

When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president.

Henry Kissinge

Keep cool and you command everybody.

Louis de Saint - Just

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