Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.

Ken Livingstone

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

Kelly Hoppen

I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise

Margaret Thatcher

We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.

Margaret Thatcher

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

Margaret Thatcher

I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go on the day, the time, to the doctor I choose and get out fast.

Mark Twain

I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

L. Neil Smith

The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press.

Paul Michael Glaser

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.

Oscar Wilde

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Oscar Wilde

The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

Oscar Wilde

Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

Oscar Wilde

I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

Oscar Wilde

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

Lydia M. Child

Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.

Luke Wilson

I'm a little older and fatter now, and I'm not exercising as much. My lifestyle these days involves a lot of beer and pasta. But there's something satisfying in letting your body go to hell. So maybe I won't get offered the same kind of role as before. So what? I'm happy to play the guy in his mid-30s who may be a little unhealthy. Fat and arrogant is what I'm bringing to the script.

Michael Crichton

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

Michael Crichton

Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.

Mary Baker Eddy

Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

Marquis de Lafayette

Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.

Mark Frost

The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.

Marvin J. Ashton

You owe it to yourself to keep fit. No matter how busy or how involved you are, you should have some type of physical program to keep the body in tune.

P. T. Barnum

You must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out.

Paul Dudley White

I favor parking a few miles from the office and walking to work. You get the benefit of exercise and besides it is easier to get a parking space.

Mary Wollstonecraft

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Marshall McLuhan

Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists.

Michel de Montaigne

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Michel de Montaigne

The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.

Michael Sandel

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.

Michael Sandel

Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time, there are strictures against idolatry, which is a kind of overreaching and confusing human beings' role with God's.

Francois Rabelais

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

George Carman

Exercise caution, as I have advised many people.