Exercise Quotes

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.

Thomas Jefferson

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

George A. Sheehan

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

Benjamin Tucker

Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers.

Dave Barry

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

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

The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Thomas Jefferson

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other

Florence King

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

William Temple

Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact casus non faederis to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits. Without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them

Thomas Jefferson

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State

Thomas Jefferson

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

T. S. Eliot

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Hugh Blair

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

Henry Ford
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