Body Quotes

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

P. G. Wodehouse

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.

Aristotle Onassis

The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

George S. Arundale

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

George Meredith

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

William Feathe

i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.

E. e. cummings

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

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

George Osne

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

J. J. Fumas

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

H. L. Mencken

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

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

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

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - The trees, the clouds, everything.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

Jim

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

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Jeremy Thorpe

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Michel de Montaigne

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Bob Dylan

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

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

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.

Unknown

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Fritz Perls

If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.

Japanese Proverb, Also quoted in the movie Rising Sun

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

H. L. Mencken

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

Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.

Doctor Who

When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush' just once.

Mrs Patrick Campbell, to George Bernard Shaw

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.

Andy Warhol

As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.

James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh".