Body Quotes

Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.

Kahlil Gibran

I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Rebecca West

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

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

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711

When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.

Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".

The networks are not some chicken - Coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

Ralph Nade

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Dahlberg

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Seneca

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

Unknown

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

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

Mrs Patrick Campbell, to George Bernard Shaw

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Cato, Roman statesman and historian

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

President George Bush, quoted in Asiaweek magazine

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body.

Miyamoto Musashi

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

Elmer Davis

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

Anonymous

There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.

Barbara Howa

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".

Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

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

H. L. Mencken

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

B. B. King

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960.

John Lennon

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.

Shakti Gawain

A person without character is just as body without soul.

Ranjan

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

Alanis Morissette

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Frank Moore Colby

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.

T. H. White

A thief believes everybody steals.

E. W. Howe