Body Quotes

E. e. cummings - i do not know what it is about you that closes...
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
Seneca
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen
Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.
Spider - Man
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
Juvenal, Satires
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
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
Johann wolfgang von goethe - everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to...
The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco
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
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
Martha Graham
Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
Isadora Duncan
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Orison Swett Marden
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
Jesse Stuart
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".
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
Jesse Stuart
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
The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels.
Theodor Herzl
There is a difference between Moses and Paul. Moses was the great Law - Giver to the nation of Israel, while Paul is the great dispenser of Grace to the Church, the Body of Christ.
Henry Grube
The President can bomb anybody he likes.
Richard Nixon, Nixon
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
John Donne
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
Michael Landon
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
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
Anatole France
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Groucho Marx
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
Henry David Thoreau
Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
Alfred A. Montapert
Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.
Paul Fussell
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.
Plato
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.
C. C. Colton
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
Lord Chesterfield
I have such poor vision I can date anybody.
Garry Shandling
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
Jean Cocteau, Journey to Freedom (1969)
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do and find the cure all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.
Richard Feynman
Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.
African Prove