Body Quotes

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

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

Your body is just the place your memory calls home.

Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing

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

James Thurbe

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Agatha Christie

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.

Jesse Louis Jackson

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

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

Elvin Stackman

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

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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)

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

Quentin Crisp

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Heywood Broun

I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Groucho Marx

A humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and, second, that nobody else is either.

Homer McLin

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

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

Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold.

Zelda

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

I have such poor vision I can date anybody.

Garry Shandling

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.

Rebecca West

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

Richard Pryor, Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Socrates

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

Miyamoto Musashi

Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

Isadora Duncan

To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

E e cummings

To be somebody, you must last.

Ruth Gordon

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

George Washington

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do and find the cure all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

Richard Feynman

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Joe Theismann