Body Quotes

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

J. B. Priestley

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis

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

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

Socrates

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

Milton R. Sapirstein

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Alice Walke

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

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

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

Novalis

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

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

Edward Dahlberg

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

James Thurbe

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

Gertrude Stein

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein it rejects it.

P. B. Medawa

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

George Osne