Body Quotes

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980

When money talks, nobody notices what grammar it uses.

Anonymous

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

Boris Marshalov

I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

J. J. Fumas

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self - Concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

S Hayakawa

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

Publilius Syrus

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beeche

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

Robert Byrne

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

H. L. Mencken

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, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765

Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.

Unknown

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

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

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

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Henry David Thoreau, Vol. 2, p. 318 Houghton Mifflin

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 dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

Orson Scott Card, Treasure Box

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Bob Dylan

A merry Christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world.

Charles Dickens

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Tallulah Bankhead

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen.

The Talmud

Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice.

Leon Lessinge

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

Helen Gurley Brown

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

E. M. Forste

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

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

Novalis

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

Unknown

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Jane E. Brody

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

Eugene Delacroix

Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right.

President George Bush, quoted in Asiaweek magazine

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

David Richerby

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels.

Theodor Herzl