Body Quotes

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
David Richerby
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
Frank moore colby - i know of no more disagreeable situation than to...
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Jimmy Breslin
Rudyard kipling - i always prefer to believe the best of everybody...
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
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali
Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion.
Publilius Syrus
Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
Not everybody has to sing the melody.
Pete Seege
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
Jesse Stuart
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
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)
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
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
Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.
African Prove
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
John Blake
Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
Unknown
Bette davis, the lonely life, 1962 - there are new words now that excuse everybody....
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
E. M. Forste
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Orison Swett Marden
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
G. K. Chesterton
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun
The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.
Jim Samuels
Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
Ron Nesen
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
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - And be lenient to everybody else.
Henry Ward Beeche
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
Henry David Thoreau
We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.
John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers
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 ever died from pleasure.
Sol Hurok
The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.
Alexander Pope
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
I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960.
John Lennon
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature
It is easy to fly into a passion - - Anybody can do that - - But to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - - That is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
Aristotle