Body Quotes
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
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
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.John Adams
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
Your body is just the place your memory calls home.Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
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
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.Erica Jong
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.Upham
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.Walt West
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
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein it rejects it.P. B. Medawa
The President can bomb anybody he likes.Richard Nixon, Nixon
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.Will Rogers, New York Times Aug. 31 1924
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.E e cummings
to be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else - - Is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight.E. e. cummings
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.John Collins
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
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.Tom Robbins
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.Author Unknown
Each body has its art...Gwendolyn Brooks
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.Walt Whitman
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.B. B. King
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.Jiddu Krishnamurti
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell
Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.Spider - Man
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.John Lennon
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.Lord Chesterfield
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.La Rochefoucauld
The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.Tyron Edwards
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.Victor Hugo
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.John Martin Fische
Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.Rebecca Johnson
