Body Quotes

I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Rathe

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat 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, The Lonely Life, 1962

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

J. J. Fumas

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

Edmund Burke

If you have a body, you are an athlete.

Bill Bowerman

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Kahlil Gibran

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Alfred A. Montapert

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

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

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

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

Elmer Davis

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

By the end, everybody had a label - - Pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

Jerry Rubin

A humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and, second, that nobody else is either.

Homer McLin

The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.

Bryce Courtenay

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture the book widens and deepens with our years.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

Lord Chesterfield

A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.

Barbara Burrow

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Carl Jung

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.

Shakti Gawain

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

D. H. Lawrence

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

Anonymous

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

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

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Mark Twain

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 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)

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.

John Petit - Senn

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.

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

Mark Twain