Body Quotes

Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.

George Ade

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".

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)

Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.

Steve Prefontaine

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.

Jean Cocteau, Journey to Freedom (1969)

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".

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

Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Unknown

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

Elizabeth Bowen

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others, 1912

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Margaret Fulle

As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.

Edward Bedore

Never give up on anybody.

Hubert Humphrey

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Cato, Roman statesman and historian

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

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.

Andy Warhol

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

Miyamoto Musashi

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

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, Satires

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

George Osne

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

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

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

Gertrude Stein

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Mark Twain

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

George Bernard Shaw

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

The true Church is not an organization, nor does one join it through the noisy mechanics of denominational machinery. Rather it is a living organism, a body, and believers are joined to it by the quiet working of the Holy Spirit.

Cornelius Stam

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

John Oliver Hobbes

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

After 3, a body has a mind of its own.

H Hahn Blavatsky

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Thomas Jefferson

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

Anne Sexton

People don? t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts