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Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late. by Unknown

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. by Thomas Jefferson

Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving. by Bill McIntire

Barbossa For too long I've been parched of thirst and unable to quench it. Too long I've been starving to death and haven't died. I feel nothing. Not the wind on my face nor the spray of the sea. Nor the warmth of a woman's flesh. You best start believing in ghost stories Miss Turner. You're in one. by Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl

Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds. by Unknown

Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. by Ambrose Bierce

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. by Mark Twain

Baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical. by Yogi Berra

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical. by Lawrence Peter Berra

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game. by Rod Kanehl

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. by Bill Veeck

Baseball is dull only to dull minds. by Red Barber

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. by Ted Williams

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field by Jim Boulton

BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company. by Anon.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. by Wernher von Braun

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. by Woody Allen

Basically, there are three ways the skunk and I are a lot alike. The first is, we both like to spread our 'stink' around. The second is we both get hit by cars a lot. The third is stripes. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Batman I'm not going to kill you. I want you to do me a favor. I want you to tell all your friends about me. Nic What are you Batman I'm Batman by Batman

Batman You killed my parents. The Joker What What What are you talking about Batman I made you, you made me first. The Joker Give me a break. I was a kid when I killed your parents. When I say I made you you gotta say you made me. How childish can you get by Batman

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting. by Maxims of Ptahhotep

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. by Judy Garland

Be a fountain, not a drain. by Rex Hudler

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. by Frank Tyger

Be a sinner and sin mightily, but more mightily believe and rejoice in Christ. by Martin Luther

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. by Stephen Jobs

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. by Sir Thomas Browne

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do. by Sarah Knowles Bolton

Be and not seem. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. by Paxton Hood

Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity. by Horace Mann

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. by Robert

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. by Dan McKinnon

Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid. by Basil King

Be bold and the mighty will follow. by Ted Walters

Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long. by Miguel de Cervantes

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything. by Andre Malraux

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. by Mark Twain

Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night. by John Larroquette

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. by Ralph W. Sockman

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. by Epictetus

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. by James Arthur Baldwin

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. by Sir Thomas Browne

Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none. by Benjamin Franklin

Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything. by Aesop

Be contented when you have got all you want. by Holbrook Jackson

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. by George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. by George Washington

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade. by George Eliot

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. by Arthur Wellesley

Be entirely tolerant or not at all follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess. by Heinrich Heine

Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself. by Hyman Rickover

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. by Sun-tzu

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. by Andre Gide

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. by James A. Garfield

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you. by Ernest Hemingway

Be gentle with the young. by Juvenal

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. by Henry Van Dyke

Be good and you will be lonesome. by Mark Twain

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. by Eubie

Be great in act, as you have been in thought. by William Shakespeare

Be happy Be supportive Be Naughty Be just like the way you are But don't get bored. by Unknown

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. by Scottish Proverb

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. by Welsh Proverb

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. by H Hahn Blavatsky

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day. by William Law

Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome. by Marion Parker

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. by Plato

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. by Marie Curie

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. by David Starr Jordan

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. by Michael Caine

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. by Josh Billings

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. by Robert Service

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity. by John Brown

Be modest It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. by Jules Renard

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. by John Wooden

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. by Chilo

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up. by Oprah Winfrey

Be neither too remote nor too familiar. by Prince Charles

Be nice to everyone on your way to the top because you pass them all on the way down. by Fred Hufnagel, Sr.

Be not afraid of greatness some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. by William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. by Chinese Proverb

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact. by James Truslow Adams

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. by Thomas a Kempis

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. by Confucius

Be not ashamed of thy virtues honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. by Ben Jonson

Be not astonished at new ideas for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. by Spinoza

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise. by Thomas Fuller

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. by Hebrews 132 Bible

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. by Ecclesiastes 79 Bible Hebrew

Be not slow to visit the sick. by Ecclesiastes

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. by Johann Georg von Zimmermann

Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it. by James J. Roche

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. by Alexander Pope

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods. by Seneca

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men. by Samuel Johnson

Be of love a little more careful than of anything. by e e cummings

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. by Muriel Spark

Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water. by Latin Proverb

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. by David Assael

Be patient enough to live one day at a time, letting yesterday go and leaving tomorrow until it arrives. by Unknown

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. by Malcolm X

Be positive in addressing the envelope to your future, For enclosed are your efforts from the past. Be certain of the postage and double check what class. by Unknown

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet. by Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends. by Juvenal

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. by Seneca

Be sincere be brief be seated. by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him. by Scottish Proverb

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. by Miguel de Cervantes

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. by Socrates

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. by Derek Bethune

Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. by D. H. Lawrence

Be strong and of good courage be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. by Joshua 19 Bible

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. by Sir Thomas Browne

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise. by Phillips Brooks

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger. by Cicero

Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience. by Hasidic Saying

Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.. by Turkish Proverb

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go. by William Shakespeare

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. by Alexander Pope

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind. by Matthew Prior

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. by Henry David Thoreau

Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse. by Francis Quarles

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous. by James Gould Cozzens

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. by Joaquin Setanti

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. by Dr. Seuss

Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed. by Edward Young

Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise. by Francis Quarles

Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so. by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. by Lord Chesterfield

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself. by William Cobbett

Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong. by James Leo Herlihy

Beanie I have a wife and kids. Do I seem like a happy guy to you, Frank by Old School

Beanie Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone. by Old School

Beanie Well, let me be the first to say congratulations to you man you have one vagina for the rest of your life. Real smart man. by Old School

Beanie You think I like avoiding my wife and kids to hangout with nineteen year old girls everyday by Old School

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character. by Antonin Scalia

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. by Epictetus

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art. by Unknown

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them. by David Hume

Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devourBrightness falls from the airQueens have died young and fairDust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must dieLord have mercy on us. by Thomas Nash

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right. by Donald Culross Peattie

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual. by Rune Leknes

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness. by Vincent McNabb

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break. by Sara Teasdale

Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change. by Miles Davis

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.' by Clare Booth Luce

Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality. by Emily Dickinson

Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now. by Raymond Smullyan

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. by Amelia Burr

Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor. by Jeffrey Klein

Because of Christ's resurrection--and His guarantee that He will resurrect all who believe in Him--we are the most fortunate, the most blest people on the planet Our faith is effective, we are not in our sins, our departed loved ones are with the Lord, and the labor we do for Him is not in vain. by Bob Wilkin

Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth. by Richard Milhous Nixon

Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control. by Allen Ginsberg

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. by Bertolt Brecht

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made. by Barbara Hall

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there. by Norman Vincent Peale

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement. by Anthony D'Angelo

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by. by Oprah Winfrey

Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself. by Brian Lindsay

Bed is the poor man's opera. by Italian Proverb

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself. by Unknown

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology. by Rebecca West

Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk -- to be true to ourselves. by Jim Webb

Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most. by Joe Moore

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. by Henry Ford

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. by Albert Einstein

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. by George Santayana

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories. by John Wilmot

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. by Rita Rudner

Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. by John Wilmot

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. by Helen Rowland

Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent. by Andrew Alden

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. by Hesiod

Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse. by G. C. Lichtenberg

Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse. by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. by La Rochefoucauld

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . . by Ernest Hemingway

Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act. by Sallust

Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself What is my truest intention Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it. by Oprah Winfrey

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin. by Kathleen Norris

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. by George Santayana

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away--and barefoot. by Sarah Jackson

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late. by Marie Beyon Ray

Begin somewhere you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. by Liz Smith

Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have. by Henry C. Blinn

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again. by Og Mandino

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea. by Rachel Carson

Behind an able man there are always other able men. by Chinese Proverb

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. by Louis D. Brandeis

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. by Honore' de Balzac

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. by Hubert Humphrey

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. by Oscar Levant

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Behold the man. by Vulgate

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. by James Bryant Conant

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket. by Mark Twain

Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat. by Julie Burchill

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. by Will Rogers

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it . I would have made a terrible mother. by Katharine Hepburn

Being a man, ne'er ask the gods for a life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long. by Menander

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. by Thomas Alva Edison

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail. by Philip

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage. by Lao Tzu

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. by Marilyn vos Savant

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck-if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left. by Jean Kerr

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. by Sigmund Freud

Being filled with the Holy Spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the Spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 518, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity. by Clarence Cramer

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. by Eugene McCarthy

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. by Blake Clark

Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. by Lazarus Long

Being on the tightrope is living everything else is waiting. by Karl Wallenda

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. by Muriel Spark

Being plied with fine food always puts me in mind of the slammer, cause the food was jumpin' in there too--high in fat but nice and salty. You know what the worst deprivation in there was My music. Radio belonged to my cell mate, the Blonde Hammer. He was into that jazz-fusion thing at the time. I tell you what, enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll get killed in a knife fight. by Barbara Hall

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. by Margaret Hilda Thatcher

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. by Lyndon B. Johnson

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. by Paul Johannes Tillich

Being rich is having money being wealthy is having time. by Margaret Bonnano

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. by Thomas Paine

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. by Peter Ustinov

Believe in life Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. by W. E. B. Du Bois

Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. by H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Believe in something larger than yourself. by Barbara Bush

Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy by Norman Vincent Peale

Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. by Francis Bacon

Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it. by William Penn

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. by Buddha

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. by Buddha

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert. by Virgil

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. by Dinah Mulock Craik

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. by William James

Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it. by Andr Gide

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. by Andre Gide

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts. by F. F. Bosworth

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. by Thomas Jefferson

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. by John Jay Chapman

Benjamin Hey, who wants Chinese Takeout I know a great place Wayne I'll have the cream of sum yung guy. by Wayne's World

BesideCother art to be learned -- not to see what is not. by Maria Mitchell

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. by Joe Paterno

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. by Lin Yutang

Besides, we don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. by Bob Ross

Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Beth Are there any guys out there who are JUST NORMAL by Road Trip

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. by Confucius

Better a mouse in the pot than no meat at all. by Romanian Proverb

Better and ugly face than an ugly mind. by James

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. by Edmund Burke

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it. by Publilius Syrus

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one. by Scottish Proverb

Better be quarreling than lonesome. by Irish Proverb

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. by Aesop

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear. by Aesop

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad. by Thomas Paine

Better hazard once than always be in fear. by Thomas Fuller

Better is the enemy of good. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world. by George Bernard Shaw

Better late than never. by Titus Livius

Better limp all the way to heaven than not get there at all. by William Ashley

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. by Otomo No Yakamochi

Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home, his face might burn up. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare. by John Dryden

Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being. by The Dhammapada

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. by Dr. Robert Schuller

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day. by Anonymous

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. by Saint Augustine

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. by Chinese Proverb

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes. by Jean de La Fontaine

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. by Cyril Connolly

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. by Italian Proverb

Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom. by Bernard De Voto

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. by Adolph Monod

Between two evils, choose neither between two goods, choose both. by Tryon Edwards

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. by Mae West

Beware how you take away hope from another human being. by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. by Demosthenes

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. by Aesop

Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting. by Burmese Proverb

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy rich, not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man. by William Shakespeare

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. by Jesus

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. by Margaret Fuller

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. by Leonard Brandwein

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices. by Otto von Bismark

Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details. by William Feather

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. by Bokonon

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. by George Bernard Shaw

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. by Benjamin Franklin

Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything. by Arnold Glasgow

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion. by The Talmud

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. by Holbrook Jackson

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances. by La Fontaine

Beware the fury of a patient man. by John Dryden

Beware the fury of a patient man. by Publilius Syrus

Beware the ides of March. by William Shakespeare

Beware the man of one book. by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. by Peggy Noonan

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for. by Barbara Mikkelson

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. by Frank Herbert

Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity. by Cassia Lewis

Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance. by James Arthur Baldwin

Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language. by Charles Scribner, Jr.

Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers. by Albert Einstein

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that. by Barbara Bush

Biff Tannen So why don't you make like a tree and get outta here by Back to the Future

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. by Diana Black

Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it. by Unknown

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience. by Lawrence Peter Berra

Billy Almon has all of his inlaw and outlaws here this afternoon. by Jerry Coleman

Billy Hey I'm trying to score points with the teacher today. DON'T SCREW IT UP. 3rd Grader I dare you to touch her boobs. Billy Touch her boobs That's assault brotha...... Ya double dare me by Billy Madison

Billy No I will not make out with you. Did ya hear that this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class. You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the chlorophyll. by Billy Madison

Billy Shampoo is better. I go on first and clean the hair. Conditioner is better. I leave the hair silky and smooth. Oh, really, fool Really. by Billy Madison

Billy Sometimes I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out. by Billy Madison

Billy T-T-T-T-Today, Junior by Billy Madison

Biography lends to death a new terror. by Oscar Wilde

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them by Rose Kennedy

Bite off more than you can chew and then chew like hell. by Peter Brock

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it. by Anonymous

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes. by Harry Emerson Fosdick

Blade He makes the weapons, I use them. by Blade

Blade There are worse things out tonight than vampires. Dr. Karen Jenson Like what Blade Like me. by Blade

Blade You better wake up. The world you live in is nothing but a sugarcoated topping There is another world beneath it. And if you want to survive it you better learn how to PULL THE TRIGGER by Blade

Blame someone else and get on with your life. by Alan Woods

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished. by Luisa Sigea

Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light. by Unknown

Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt. by Herbert Clark Hoover

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. by Unknown

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. by Thomas Hughes

Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious. by William Hale White

Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting. by Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. by Alexander Pope

Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. by Thomas Carlyle

Blessed is he who has learned To admire but not envy, To follow but not imitate, To praise but not flatter, And to lead but not manipulate. by William Arthur Ward

Blessed is he who speaks a kindness thrice blessed is he who repeats it. by Arab Proverb

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. by George Eliot

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. by Bible

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. by George Eliot

Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can. by M. Morris

Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than anything. by Goldie Nash

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch. by Yoshida Kenko

Blow O wind to where my loved one is. Touch him and come touch me soon. I'll feel his gentle touch through you and meet his beauty in the moon. These things are much for the one who loves. One can live by them alone that he and I breathe the same air and that the Earth we tread is one. by Ramayana

Blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows but without that noise. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude. by William Shakespeare

Bluntness is a virtue. by Allison Ling

Blushing is the color of virtue. by Laertius Diogenes

Bo There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water by Signs

Bob We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week. by Office Space

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. by Plato

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything. by Nikita Khrushchev

Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible. by Al Jaffee

Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity. by Spanish Proverb

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. by Umberto Eco

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. by Barbara Tuchman

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. by Joseph Addison

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. by Charles W. Eliot

Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more. by Sir John Harington

Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. by Paul Valery

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. by Francis Bacon

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. by A. Whitney Griswold

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. by Jim

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. by Samuel Paterson

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. by Dorothy L. Sayers

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. by Ambrose Bierce

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. by James Bridie

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. by Bertrand Russell

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is. by Thomas Szasz

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for So you can make a bigger salary than other people by Beah Richards

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change. by Jesse Louis Jackson

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. by Joseph Wood Krutch

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets. by Simone Weil

Boxing is just show business with blood. by Frank Bruno

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. by P. G. Wodehouse

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. by James Grover Thurber

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people. by Charles Lamb

Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. by Alan Marshall Beck

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. by Kim Hubbard

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. by Kin Hubbard

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. by Anthony Hope

Boys will be boys... and so will most men. by Jean R. Langley

Brain an apparatus with which we think we think. by Ambrose Bierce

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part. by Michael J. Gelb

Brains are like sponges... If allowed to remain moist for too long they become moldy. by Angela White

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated. by Robert S. McNamara

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party. by Irving Layton

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. by Sir Thomas Beecham

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. by G. K. Chesterton

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. by Lewis Carroll

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. by Oprah Winfrey

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. by Rupert Brooke

Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.) by Horace

Brevity is the soul of wit. by William Shakespeare

Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization. by Jon Bentley

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. by Sir Winston Churchill

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind. by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, why did they believe me by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart. by Aeschylus

Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . . by Seneca

Bruce Wayne Y'see, my life is really com-PLEX. by Batman

Build a dream and the dream will build you. by Dr. Robert Schuller

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity. by Vince Lombardi

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. by Douglas MacArthur

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs. by Anthony D'Angelo

Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock. by Miguel de Cervantes

Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered. by Anon.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. by Laurence J. Peter

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. by Charles Peters

Burnt Sienna. Thats the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas. by Ken Weaver

Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs. by David Borenstein

Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible. by William Faulkner

Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down. by Frank Lloyd Wright

Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. by Henry Robinson Luce

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. by Woodrow Wilson

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail. by Nicholas Murray Butler

But all God's angels come to us disguised... by James Russell Lowell

But all who humble themselves before the Lord shall be given every blessing and shall have wonderful peace. by Psalm 3711 TLB Bible

But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus. by Henry Louis Mencken

But be, as you have been, my happiness... by Randall Jarrell

But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will. by Matthew Arnold

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much. by John Dryden

But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously. by Paul Wiener

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. by Thomas Jefferson

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having. by John Perry Barlow

But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. by Matthew 2311, 12 Bible

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely. by Charles Dickens

But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself--you know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell. by Charles E. Wilson

But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all. by Don Quixote

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. by Benjamin Franklin

But it's hard to be hip over thirty When everyone else is nineteen, When the last dance we learned was the Lindy, And the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbra Streisand Were trying to do something about it. by Judith Viorst

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. by Ernest Hemingway

But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second. by Vince Lombardi

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. by Alan B. Watts

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see. by George Meredith

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend. by David Bissonette

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat. by Molly Haskell

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain by Lois McMaster Bujold

But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move. by Barbara Hall

But respect yourself most of all. by Golden verses of the Pythagoreans

But screw up your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. by Mary Bertone

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. by E. M. Forster

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. by Carl Sagan

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. by Herbert Butterfield

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer. by Martha Nussbaum

But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil. by William Shakespeare

But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. by D. H. Lawrence

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument. by Andrew Schneider

But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, -- nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, -- it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition. by John Owen

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. by James Grover Thurber

But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. by 1 Timothy 611 Bible

But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance. by William Shakespeare

But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning. by Sir Walter Raleigh

But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people. by Geoffrey F. Albert

But what is the difference between literature and journalism ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. by Oscar Wilde

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. by Jane Austen

But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem. by R. E. Phillips

But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive. by John Milton

But who is to guard the guards themselves by Juvenal

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. by George Gordon Byron

But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write. by Sir Philip Sidney

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. by William Shakespeare

But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. by William Shakespeare

Buy on the rumor sell on the news. by Wall Street Proverb

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. by Arthur Schopenhauer

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. by G. K. Chesterton

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action. by Albert Einstein

By all means marry if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. by Socrates

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions. by Richard Buckminster Fuller

By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible. by Italian Proverb

By courage I repel adversity. by Anonymous

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top. by Saskya Pandita

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows. by Ovid

By far the best proof is experience. by Francis Bacon

By following the concept of 'one country, two systems,' you don't swallow me up nor I you. by Deng Xiaoping

By force of arms. by Cicero

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. by Oscar Wilde

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun. by Katherine Mansfield

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. by Benjamin Franklin

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. by Peter Ustinov

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists. by M. C. Escher

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn. by Latin Proverb

By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me. by Andrew Schneider

By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart. by Confucius

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it. by Sharon Salzberg

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing. by Richard Milhous Nixon

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. by Jerry Rubin

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks by William Shakespeare

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him. by W. Somerset Maugham

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. by Charles Wadsworth

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up. by Lord Billingsley

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up. by Eve Babitz

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. by Charles Dickens

By the time we've made it, we've had it. by Malcolm Forbes

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport. by Julius Boros

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well. by Eleanor Marx

By the work one knows the workmen. by Jean de La Fontaine

By their own follies they perished, the fools. by Homer

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. by John 1335 Bible

By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest. by Confucius

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. by Mark Twain

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. by Robert Frost