Body Quotes

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

George S. Arundale

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Brendan Francis Behan

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

Plato

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 essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Aubrey Menen

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

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

Maya Angelou

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

D. H. Lawrence

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Helen Rowland

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

John Adams

No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.

Honore de Balzac

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

Johann von Goethe

My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood is thicker than water, but your body already has all the blood it needs. You will always need water.

Eric Pio

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Samuel Johnson

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Buddha

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

William Shakespeare

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

Joseph Addison

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

P. B. Medawa

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - The trees, the clouds, everything.

Thich Nhat Hanh

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

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

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 amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

After 3, a body has a mind of its own.

H Hahn Blavatsky

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.

Robert Byrne

Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Unknown

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

P. G. Wodehouse

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Alfred North Whitehead