Body Quotes
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.Cicero
Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.Ivern Ball
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato, The Republic
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.Edvard Munch
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.Kahlil Gibran
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.Walt West
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.Whitney Young
Television is the first truly democratic culture - - The first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.Clive Barnes
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.Oscar Wilde
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anybody who accepts mediocrity - In school, on the job, in life - Is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.Charles Knight
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
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.George Bernard Shaw
Today my spirit is going to school while my body stays in bed.Bill Watterson, "Calvin", Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
A healthy mind in a healthy body.Juvenal
A politician is an arse upon which everybody has sat except a man.E. E. Cummings
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.Maya Angelou
To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.George Washington
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
To be somebody, you must last.Ruth Gordon
If the camel once get his nose in a tent, the body will soon follow.Saudi Prove
Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin.Jim Morrison
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
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.Alfred North Whitehead
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.Harry S Truman
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
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.Umberto Eco
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.Quentin Crisp
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.Shakti Gawain
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
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.Mark Twain
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.Samuel Johnson
