Body Quotes

Everybody likes to go their own way - - To choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.

John Petit - Senn

Shun praise. Praise leads to self - Delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.

H Hahn Blavatsky

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.

Herbert B. Swope

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Aldous Huxley

The President can bomb anybody he likes.

Richard Nixon, Nixon

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

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

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

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

Buddha

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

Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.

Bruce Cockburn

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

James Thurbe

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Erica Jong

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

J. Krishnamarti

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

To be somebody, you must last.

Ruth Gordon

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

Publilius Syrus

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Enoch Powell

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

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

Frank Zappa

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift Rom. 126 - 8.

Bruce Kempe

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... Regardless of what they say.

Barbara McClintock

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

E e cummings

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Quentin Crisp

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Gertrude Stein

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sydney Harris