exercise quotes

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. (William Somerset Maugham) [imagination/exercise/more]
• Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. (John Adams) [exercise/wish/order]
• To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting. (Francis Bacon) [exercise]
• God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. (Francis Bacon) [god/exercise/intellect]
• There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. (Roland Barthes) [people/think/exercise/exercise]
• Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle. ( Cher) [bad/exercise]
• Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [exercise/mind/etiquette/give]
• Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused. (Charles Caleb Colton) [perfect/order/exercise/genius]
• People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. (Thomas Eliot) [people/exercise/being]
• A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [day/exercise/life]
• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. (Sigmund Freud) [being/exercise]
• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. (Vaclav Havel) [exercise/power/more]
• Habit is a form of exercise () [habit/form/exercise]
• Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast. (Thomas Jefferson) [exercise]
• The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. (Thomas Jefferson) [soul & body/exercise]
• I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. (Thomas Jefferson) [being/happiness/exercise/power]
• The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. (Thomas Jefferson) [master/slave/exercise]
• Exercise is labor without weariness. (Samuel Johnson) [exercise]
• Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. (Samuel Johnson) [exercise/willpower/abstinence]
• Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. (Samuel Johnson) [sorrow/life/exercise/motion]
• Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. (Charles Lamb) [gambler/war/exercise]
• Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. - (Abraham Lincoln) [worry/day/exercise/willpower]
• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. (Paul McCartney) [imagination/exercise/more]
• 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. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [exercise/power/courage/fail]
• The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [danger/exercise]
• Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. (George Orwell) [exercise/hatred/jealousy/pleasure]
• Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world. (Theodore Roosevelt) [right/exercise]
• Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. (Bertrand Russell) [exercise/tyranny]
• Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility. (Albert Schweitzer) [exercise/willpower/responsibility]
• As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport. (William Shakespeare) [exercise]
• If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. (William Shakespeare) [exercise]

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