Body Quotes

Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

Eric Hoffe

Never lend books - Nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Anatole France

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

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

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

H. P. Lovecraft

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Michel de Montaigne

Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.

The Law of Thum

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

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

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

Rene Angelil

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

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

Helen Gurley Brown

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.

Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince".

Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

A home without books is a body without soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

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

Boris Marshalov

When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president.

Henry Kissinge

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Quentin Crisp

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

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

D. H. Lawrence

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

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.

James Thorpe

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

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Pythagoras

Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.

Ivern Ball