Body Quotes

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Earl of Chesterfield

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975

In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.

Haniel Long

True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

Sy Parrish, One Hour Photo

A home without books is a body without soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

Horace Bushnell

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

H. P. Lovecraft

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Charlie McCarthy (Edgar Bergen)

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Don Herold

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".

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Erica Jong

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

Eugene Delacroix

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann von Goethe

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

Calvin Trillin

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Jimmy Breslin

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or... of something else.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everybody wants to be somebody nobody wants to grow.

Johann von Goethe

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.

Kahlil Gibran

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Mark Twain

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

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.

Seneca

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

Get the best out of your body that you can get.

Pat Hall

My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood is thicker than water, but your body already has all the blood it needs. You will always need water.

Eric Pio

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.

John Petit - Senn

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Robert Anton Wilson