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Richard Bach

What the Caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly. -Richard Bach [Illusions]

If you argue for your limitations, they are yours. - Richard Bach

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however -Richard Bach

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. -Richard Bach -American Author

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is ... impossible. -Richard Bach, writer (1936- )

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. -Richard Bach, writer (1936- )

The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined. -John N. Bahcall, astrophysicist (1935-2005)

Francis Bacon, (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist and statesman.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. -Joan Baez, musician (1941- )

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -Walter Bagehot, 1826-1877, British Economist, Critic

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. -George Baker (1877-1965)


Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. -James Baldwin

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. -James Baldwin, writer (1924-1987)

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. -James Baldwin, writer (1924-1987)

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. -James Baldwin, writer (1924-1987)

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.-James A. Baldwin

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes. -James Baldwin, writer (1924-1987)


So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. -Roger Baldwin, civil rights advocate (1884-1981)


A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.-Stanley Baldwin

War would end if the dead could return. -Stanley Baldwin, statesman (1867-1947)


Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. -John Balguy

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one. -Ivern Ball

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. -Hosea Ballou, preacher (1771-1852)


Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. -Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him. -Honore De Balzac

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. -Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

What is art? Nature concentrated. -Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. -Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one. -Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)


Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. -Tallulah Bankhead, actress (1903-1968)

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners. -Benjamin Barber

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Bard

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. - Joel Barker

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. -Natalie Clifford Barney, Author (1876-1972)


Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. -James Matthew Barrie, author (1860-1937)

Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie, novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1860-1937)

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. -James M. Barrie

God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December. -James M. Barrie

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. -J.M. Barrie, novelist and playwright
(1860-1937)


The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief. -Frank Barron

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.- John Barrymore, in Gene Fowler, Good Night, Sweet Prince, 1943.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. -Karl Barth

When you are through changing, you are through.- Bruce Barton

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.- Bernard Baruch

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain. -Mary Catherine Bateson

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. -Charles Baudelaire

One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence. -Charles A. Beard, historian (1874-1948)
 


Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887,
American Preacher, Orator, Writer)

It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant.
- Henry Ward Beecher   (1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer)

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer)

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot. -Henry Beecher (1813-1887

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road. -Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. -Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. -Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.-Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)
 

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, Thus far and no farther.-Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. -Beethoven

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. -Ludwig Van Beethoven, composer (1770-1827)


I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. -Brendan Francis Behan, playwright (1923-1964)


What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it. - Alexander Graham Bell

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. Alexander Graham Bell (also attributed to Helen Keller)


A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. -Saul Bellow.

The nicest thing about the promise of spring is that sooner or later she'll have to keep it. -Mark Beltaire

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment. -Robert Benchley

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. -Ingrid Bengis, writer and teacher (1944- )

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.-Walter Benjamin, critic and philosopher (1982-1940)

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. -Arnold Bennett, novelist (1867-1931)

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.-Bo Bennett


The question is not can they reason? Nor can they talk? But can they suffer? -Jeremy Bentham, jurist and philosopher (1748-1832)

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. -Jeremy Bentham, jurist and philosopher (1748-1832)


That man is truly good who knows his own dark places. -Beowulf

Consistency requires you to as ignorant today as you were a year ago. -Bernard Berenson

What is art but a way of seeing? -Thomas Berger, writer (1924- )

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know." -- R. K. Bergethon


Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. H.Berlioz

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. -Louis-Hector Berlioz, composer (1803-1869)


It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.-Claude Bernard {1813-1878 French Physiologist}

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. -Sarah Bernhardt


No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -Yogi Berra

Sometimes you can observe a lot by watching. -Yogi Berra

When you come to the fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. - Yogi Berri


How wonderful it is to say the right thing at the right time. A good man thinks before he speaks; the evil man spews out his evil words without a thought.- Bible, Proverbs 15:23,28


The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Love :a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce, the inimitable author of Devil's Dictionary

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)

Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (1818-1885)

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (1818-1885)

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They're a different breed of dog. -Josh Billings

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he had got. -Josh Billings

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time. -Josh Billings

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. - Josh Billings

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. -Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (1818-1885)

Is this true or only clever? -Augustine Birrell


When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out. -Otto von Bismarck

People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt. -Otto von Bismarck, statesman (1815-1898)
 

William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827)

The Man who never in his Mind and Thoughts travel'd to Heaven is No Artist. -William Blake

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. - William Blake, English Poet and Painter

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. -William Blake

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed. -William Blake

There is no great beauty that hath not some strangeness to the proportion. -William Blake

When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -William Blake

A Robin Red breast in a Cage / Puts all Heaven in a Rage. -William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827)

To see a world in a grain of sand, / And a heaven in a wild flower, / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, / And eternity in an hour. -William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827)

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrovna Hahn Blavatsky, Russian-born theosophist (1831-1891)


A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Blessington (1789-1849

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. - Lady Blessington


You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. -John Henry Boetker


There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them. -- Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962), Danish chemist, physicist

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr, physicist (1885-1962)

No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical. -Niels Bohr, physicist (1885-1962)

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. -Niels Bohr, physicist (1885-1962)
 


Who is content with nothing possesses all things. -Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, poet (1636-1711)

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -Derek Bok, President, Harvard University


Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. -Erma Bombeck, author (1927-1996)

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. -Erma Bombeck, author (1927-1996)


Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.-Napoleon Bonaparte {1769-1821 French General & Emperor}

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me. -Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France 1769-1821)

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.-Napoleon Bonaparte {1769-1821 French General & Emperor}


If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian (1906-1945)

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian and writer (1906-1945)


It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis. -Margaret Bonnano


Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven. -Edward De Bono, consultant, writer, and speaker (1933- )

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.-Edward De Bono, consultant, writer, and speaker (1933- )


To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love. -Karl Viktor von Bonstetten, author (1745-1832)

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. -Corrie Ten Boom, author and Holocaust survivor

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.-Allen J. Boone {American Author}

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have and should have. – Louis Boone, American Author


I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -Jorge Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986)

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. -Jorge Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986)

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. -Jorge Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986)


Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. -Hal Borland, journalist (1900-1978)

No one ever ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. -Amar Gopal Bose, electrical engineer, inventor, founder Bose Corp. (1929- )

Youth is the first victim of war - the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him. -Boudewijn I, King of Belgium (1934-1993)

Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.  Alison Boulter

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore. -Christian Bovee

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. -Elizabeth Bowen, novelist (1899-1973)

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. -Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (1920- )

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -Gamaliel Bradford

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. -F.H. Bradley

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -Gen. Omar Bradley


If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. -Anne Bradstreet

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. -Anne Bradstreet, poet (1612-1672)


When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach. --Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better. - Bill Bradley, American Basketball Player, US Senator


The most important political office is that of private citizen. -Louis Brandeis, lawyer, judge, and writer (1856-1941)

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and the fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. -Louis Dembitz Brandeis, lawyer, judge, and writer (1856-1941)

Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law. -Louis D. Brandeis, lawyer, judge, and writer (1856-1941)


There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. Nathaniel Branden, American Expert on Self-esteem, Author, Psychologist

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. -Nathaniel Branden, psychotherapist (1930- )


Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge: fitter to bruise than polish. -Anne Bradstreet, poet (1612-1672)

Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. Jacob Braude (American Humor Author)


I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar. -Robert Brault

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. -Robert Brault

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. -Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1938- )

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. -Robert Brault

To find a person who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. -Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1938- )


Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of the billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things within that enormous immensity. -Wernher von Braun, rocket engineer (1912-1977)

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels. ~ Bertolt Brecht ~ 1898-1956, German Dramatist, Poet

For a male and female to live continuously together is... biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault


Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. -Ashleigh Brilliant

I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. --Ashleigh Brilliant

My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure. -Ashleigh Brilliant, writer (1933- )


Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good. -Alice May Brock, author (1941- )

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -J. Bronowski [The Ascent of Man]

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. -Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. -Phillips Brooks, bishop and orator (1835-1893)

As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. -Van Wyck Brooks, writer, critic (1886-1963)

Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it. -Brigid Brophy  writer (1929-1995)

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Brougham

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -Charles Brower


One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. -Rita Mae Brown, author (1944- )

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. -Rita Mae Brown, writer (1944- )

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. -Rita Mae Brown, writer (1944- )


Do you always want to be right, or do you want to be happy? -H. Jackson Browne [P.S. I Love You]

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. -H. Jackson Browne [P.S. I Love You]

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr., writer

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance. -H. Jackson Brown, Author, Life's Little Instruction Book
 


How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (1806-1861)

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. -Elizabeth Barret Browning, poet (1806-1861)


One's reach must exceed their grasp/ or what's a heaven for? -Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Spiritual maturity is a lifelong process of replacing lies with truth. -- Bruner, Kurt D.

There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." -John Brunner, science fiction writer (1934-1995)

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. -Giordano Bruno

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. -Jean de la Bruyere, essayist and moralist (1645-1696)

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. -James Bryce


We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. -John Buchan (1875-1940) Scottish author

An atheist is a man with no invisible means of support. John Buchan


All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. ~ Pearl S. Buck ~ (1892-1973, American Novelist)

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation. -Pearl S. Buck {1892-1973 American Novelist}

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. -Pearl S. Buck, Nobelist novelist (1892-1973)


Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it. -Henry Thomas Buckle, historian (1821-1862)
 


You cannot paint "Mona Lisa" by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. -William F. Buckley, Jr.

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. -J.S.Buckminster, clergyman and editor (1797-1812)


There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. -Buddha

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned. -Buddha (c. 566-480 BCE)


His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. -Lois McMaster Bujold, writer (1949- )

Of course, it's possible to love a human being -- if you don't know them too well. -Charles Bukowski, writer (1920-1994)

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose. William M. Bulger (1934-, American Educator, Senator)


A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. -Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writer (1803-1873)

A timid question will always receive a confident answer. -Henry Lytton Bulwer, diplomat and author (1801-1872)


A man there was, tho' some did count him mad / The more he cast away, the more he had. -John Bunyan, preacher (1628-1688) [Pilgrim's Progress]

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. -John Bunyan, preacher and author (1628-1688)


The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Painter, Sculptor

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.-Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet(1475-1564)

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (1475-1564)
 


If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. -Luther Burbank, horticulturist (1849-1926)

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life. -Gelett Burgess (1866-1951)


The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. -- Edmund Burke

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them. -Edmund Burke

The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion. -Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. -Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. -Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. -Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.-Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. -Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)


A child on the farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and thinks of home. -Carl Burns

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -George Burns

I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.-Robert Burns {1759-1796 Scottish Poet}

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


Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. -John Burroughs, naturalist and writer (1837-1921) [Time and Change]

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.-John Burroughs, naturalist and writer (1837-1921)


The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. -Richard Francis Burton, explorer and writer (1821-1890)


Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. -Leo Buscaglia.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot, hang on and swing! - Leo Buscaglia

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. -Leo Buscaglia, author (1924-1998)

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. -Leo Buscaglia, author (1924-1998)

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. -Leo Buscaglia, author, speaker and professor (1924-1998)

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. -Leo Buscaglia, author, speaker and professor (1924-1998)

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. -Leo Buscaglia, author, speaker and professor (1924-1998)


Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't. -Brett Butler [Keep Deep in Paradise]

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. ~ Edward B. Butler ~

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. Nicholas Murray Butler

Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)

Don't go through life, grow through life. -Eric Butterworth

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.--Charles Buxton

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957, American Aviator, Explorer, Rear-Admiral)

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. -James F. Byrnes

Son, when you grow up you will know who I really am. I am just a child like you who has been forced to act responsibly. -Rod Byrnes

George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824),
 [Lord Byron] English romantic poet


Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. -

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I now know that they mean money. -Lord Byron, 1788-1824

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?-Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824)

Words are things; and a small drop of ink / Falling like dew upon a thought, produces / That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. -Lord Byron, (1788-1824)

All who joy would win Must share it,-Happiness was born a twin. --Lord Byron

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. -George Gordon Byron, poet (1788-1824)

The dew of compassion is a tear. -Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824)

In solitude, when we are least alone. -Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824)

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, / There is rapture in the lonely shore, / There is society where none intrudes, / By the deep sea, and music in its roar: / I love not man the less, but nature more. -Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824)

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us. -Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824)