Body Quotes

Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body - - I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

Florence Nightingale

I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Maya Angelou

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

George Santayana

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Alice Walke

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

William Shakespeare

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Don Herold

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.

Woodrow Wilson

When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush' just once.

Mrs Patrick Campbell, to George Bernard Shaw

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Pythagoras

The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.

Alexander Pope

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell

Everybody likes to go their own way - - To choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

B. B. King

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

Eugene Delacroix

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

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Seneca

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Johann von Goethe

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or... of something else.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

It is easy to fly into a passion - - Anybody can do that - - But to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - - That is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.

Aristotle

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

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

Helen Hayes

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Samuel Johnson

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Max Beerbohm

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

Pythagoras

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

George Bernard Shaw

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer?

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

Umberto Eco

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

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Arthur Mille

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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