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Body Quotes by Mark Twain
- My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
- Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.
- It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
- It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as…
- Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The…
- [N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law…
- A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him…
- Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
- My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing,…
- Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a…
- Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.
- Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my…
- My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine