BABIES : A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. (Carl Sandburg: U.S. poet, biographer, journalist, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967)

BABIES : Babies are such a nice way to start people. (Don Herold: U.S humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist. 1889-1966)

BACHELORS : A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game. (Unknown Source: )

BALANCE : No mud, no lotus (Thich Nhat Hanh: Vietnamese-American Buddhist spiritual leader and peace activist, prolific author, poet, and teacher who was known as the 'Father of Mindfulness' and was a major influence on western practices of Buddhism, 1926-2022)

BALANCE : The world is too complicated to fit into one political system. Progress is made by finding balance between competing truths—between freedom and security, diversity and solidarity. (David Brooks: U.S. author as well as political and cultural commentator, Born 1961)

BALANCE : There is strong shadow where there is much light. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

BALDNESS : The most delightful advantage of being bald—one can hear snowflakes. (Unknown Source: )

BALDNESS : There's one thing about baldness—it's neat. (Don Herold: U.S humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist. 1889-1966)

BANKERS : A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains. (Unknown Source: )

BANKING : A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

BANKING : A bank is where you can borrow money if you provide enough evidence to show that you don't need it. (Unknown Source: )

BANKING : Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

BANKING : I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

BANKING : It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

BAPTISM : With soap, baptism is a good thing. (Robert Ingersoll: U.S. attorney, writer and orator who campaigned in defense of agnosticism and who was nicknamed 'The Great Agnostic,' 1833-1899)

BARGAINING : Ask much to have a little. (Desiderius Erasmus: Dutch philosopher and scholar, considered to have been one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance. (1466-1536))

BARGAINING : The bargain is ill made where neither party gains. (Unknown Source: )

BARGAINS : A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist. (Franklin Jones: Expatriate U.S. spiritual teacher, writer, and artist, 1939-2008)

BARGAINS : A bargain is something you don’t need at a price you can’t resist. (Franklin Jones: Expatriate U.S. spiritual teacher, writer, and artist, 1939-2008)

BARGAINS : Bargains are something you can't use at a price you can't resist. (Russian Proverb: )

BARGAINS : It's a bad bargain where nobody gains. (English proverb: )

BARTERING : All government-- indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act-- is founded on compromise and barter. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

BASEBALL : Baseball is like a Wagnerian opera—10 minutes of excitement packed into 4 hours. (John Reisinger: U.S. mathematics instructor, Born 1936)

BASEBALL : Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. (Ty Cobb: U.S. Major League Baseball outfielder who in 1936 received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame, 1886-1961)

BATTLES : A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. (Louis L'Amour: U.S. author of novels and short stories, many of which were made into films, 1908-1988)

BATTLES : No battle is ever won . . . and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. (William Faulkner: U.S. novelist and Nobel Laureate, 1897-1962)

BATTLES : Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. (Jonathan Kozol: U.S. educator, activist, and prize-winning author, Born 1936)

BEAUTY : A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

BEAUTY : A thing of beauty is a joy forever. (John Keats: English Romantic poet, 1795-1821)

BEAUTY : Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. (Franz Kafka: German language writer of novels and short stories, 1883-1924)

BEAUTY : Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. (Margaret Hungerford: Irish popular novelist who wrote light romantic fiction, 1855-1897)

BEAUTY : Beauty is truth, truth beauty. (John Keats: English Romantic poet, 1795-1821)

BEAUTY : Beauty’s but skin deep. (John Davies: English poet, layer, and politician who at various times sat in the House of Commons, 1565-1618))

BEAUTY : By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. (Rabindranath Tagore: a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)

BEAUTY : Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

BEAUTY : It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not; it's a visa and it runs out fast. (Julie Burchill: English writer and journalist, Born 1959)

BEAUTY : It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

BEAUTY : Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe. (Gabriella Mistral: Chilean poet-diplomat, educator, 1889-1957)

BEAUTY : Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. (John Donne: English poet, cleric in the Church of England, and member of the English Parliament, 1572-1631)

BEAUTY : The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. (Havelock Ellis: English physician, writer, and progressivesocial reformer who studied human sexuality, 1859-1939)

BEAUTY : The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

BEAUTY : The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. (Anthony Ashley-Cooper: British philanthropist and social reformer, 1801-1885)

BEAUTY : The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

BEAUTY : There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look. (Henri Matisse: French visual artist, known as a painter, print maker, and sculptor, 1869-1954)

BEAUTY : There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. (Lady Blessington: Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess, 1789-1849)

BEAUTY : There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

BEAUTY : We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

BEAUTY : What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

BEDS : The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

BEES : How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour / And gather honey all the day from every opening flower. (Isaac Watts: English Christian minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician, 1674-1748)

BEES : The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. (St. Chrysostom: Archbishop of Constantinople, an important Early Church Father, known for his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, 349-407 A.D.)

BEGINNINGS : Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. (Rabindranath Tagore: a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)

BEGINNINGS : Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. (Maria Robinson: U.S. politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Born 1987)

BEGINNINGS : The beginning is the most important part of the work. (Plato: Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 — 348/347 B.C.E.)

BEGINNINGS : We are new every day. (Irene C. Castillego: British-Spanish writer and Jungian analyst, 1885-1967)

BEGINNINGS : Well begun is half done. (Aristotle: Greek philosopher and scientist who, along with Plato, is considered the ‘Father of Western Philosophy,’ 384-322 B.C.E.)

BEGINNINGS : You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. (C. S. Lewis: British novelist, lay theologian, broadcaster, 1898-1963)

BEHAVIOR : A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free. (Nikos Kazantzakis: Greek writer and nine-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1883-1957)

BEHAVIOR : A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

BEHAVIOR : A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. (Fyodor Dostoevsky: Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and philosopher, 1821-1881)

BEHAVIOR : Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

BEHAVIOR : Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself. (Felix Adler: German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, influential lecturer on euthanasia, religious leader, and social reformer, 1851-1933)

BEHAVIOR : Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. (Immanuel Kant: German philosopher whose views continue to have a major influence on contemporary philosophy, 1724-1804)

BEHAVIOR : All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening. (Alexander Woollcott: U.S. drama critic and commentator, and a prominent radio personality, 1887-1943)

BEHAVIOR : All’s fair in love and war. (Francis Smedley: English novelist, 1818-1864)

BEHAVIOR : Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change. (Harriet Lerner: U.S. clinical psychologist and contributor to feminist theory and therapy, Born 1944)

BEHAVIOR : Anybody who tries to be something to everybody is nobody to anybody. (Unknown Source: )

BEHAVIOR : By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

BEHAVIOR : Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. (Finley P. Dunne: U.S. humorist, social critic, and writer, 1867-1936)

BEHAVIOR : Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. (Unknown Source: )

BEHAVIOR : Do no harm, but take no shit. (Moira Fowley-Doyle: French-Irish author and artist)

BEHAVIOR : Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

BEHAVIOR : Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start. (Edgar W. Howe: U.S. novelist and newspaper and magazine editor 1853-1937)

BEHAVIOR : Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

BEHAVIOR : Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

BEHAVIOR : Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times. (Joan Lunden: U.S. journalist, an author, and a television host, Born 1950)

BEHAVIOR : He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. (Horace: Roman lyric poet, 65 B.C.E.- 8 B.C.E)

BEHAVIOR : Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. (Unknown Source: )

BEHAVIOR : I have found that it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life. (G. W. Follin: U.S. well-known video game music composer, 1966-2024)

BEHAVIOR : If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. (Gail Sheehy: U.S. author, journalist, and lecturer, Born 1937)

BEHAVIOR : If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. (Katharine Hepburn: U.S. Academy award-winning actress, 1907-2003)

BEHAVIOR : If you see your glass half empty, pour it into a smaller glass and stop bitching (Unknown Source: )

BEHAVIOR : If you want to succeed, be like a duck: above the surface act serene and calm, but below the surface, paddle like crazy. (Ann Landers: U.S. syndicated advice-columnist whose work was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America and led to her becoming a cultural icon, 1918-2002)

BEHAVIOR : In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

BEHAVIOR : It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is. (William v. Humboldt: Prussian philosopher and diplomat, 1767-1835)

BEHAVIOR : It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. (Jiddu Krishnamurti: Indian spiritual writer and speaker, 1895-1986)

BEHAVIOR : It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

BEHAVIOR : It’s OK to quit. Just never give up! (Richard Diviney: U.S. retired Navy SEAL Commander)

BEHAVIOR : Life is a dance between making it happen . . . and letting it happen. (Arianna Huffington: Greek- American author, columnist, and co-founder and chief editor of 'The Huffington Post,' Born 1950)

BEHAVIOR : Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were going to live forever. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

BEHAVIOR : Live so that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)

BEHAVIOR : Losing money makes us feel worse than gaining money makes us feel better; bad news spreads faster than good news. (Edna O'Brien: Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet, and short-story writer, Born 1930)

BEHAVIOR : Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

BEHAVIOR : Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays in the palm; clutch it, and it darts away. (Dorothy Parker: U.S. writer, satirist, social critic, 1893-1967)

BEHAVIOR : Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty. (Dorothy Parker: U.S. writer, satirist, social critic, 1893-1967)

BEHAVIOR : Our moment on stage is so brief, but if you can be aware of the ingredients that make up the stage upon which you live your life, you can enjoy the dance of life ever so much more. (Ruth Kirk: U.S. naturalist, photographer, and author, Born 1944)

BEHAVIOR : So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us. (Mother Maribel: English artist and Roman Catholic nun, 1940-1970)

BEHAVIOR : Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

BEHAVIOR : Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. (Caroline Schoeder: U.S. writer of aphorisms, Born 1971)

BEHAVIOR : The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. (John Locke: English philosopher, 1632-1704)

BEHAVIOR : The apple never falls far from the tree. (English proverb: )

BEHAVIOR : The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

BEHAVIOR : The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly. (Charles Reznikoff: U.S. poet, 1894-1976)

BEHAVIOR : The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. (Thomas B. Macaulay: British historian, author, and politician, 1800-1859)

BEHAVIOR : The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

BEHAVIOR : The possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations. (Lewis Hastings: U.S. organic chemist, 1917-1999)

BEHAVIOR : The silent dog is the first to bite. (Unknown Source: )

BEHAVIOR : The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. (Will Durant: U.S. writer, historian, and philosopher, 1885-1981)

BEHAVIOR : There are some people that you cannot change; you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone. (Margot Asquith: Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit, 1864-1945)

BEHAVIOR : There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen: and those who watch things happen; and those who wonder what happened. (Unknown Source: )

BEHAVIOR : There are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

BEHAVIOR : There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

BEHAVIOR : To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort. (Barbara G. Harrison: U.S. journalist, essayist, and memoirist, 1934-2002))

BEHAVIOR : We are what we repeatedly do. (Aristotle: Greek philosopher and scientist who, along with Plato, is considered the ‘Father of Western Philosophy,’ 384-322 B.C.E.)

BEHAVIOR : We talk on principle, but we act on interest. (Walter S. Landor: English writer, poet, and activist, 1775-1864)

BEHAVIOR : What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952) (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

BEHAVIOR : When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. (Tuli Kupferberg: U.S. counterculture poet, author, singer, cartoonist, publisher, and co-founder of a rock band, 1923-2010)

BEHAVIOR : When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. (Viktor Frankl: Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997)

BEHAVIOR : You change for two reasons: either you learn enough that you want to, or you've been hurt enough that you have to. (Kate Megahan: U.S. district manager of Faber, Coe, & Gregg for careers in retail)

BEHAVIOR : You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. (Mae West: U.S. actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol, 1893-1980)

BEHAVIOR : Your worth consists in what you are, and not in what you have. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

BELIEF : Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

BELIEF : Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. (Unknown Source: )

BELIEF : Trust in Allah, but tie your camel first. (Unknown Source: )

BELIEFS : A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind. (Robert O. Bolton: English clergyman and academic, 1572-1631)

BELIEFS : A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all. (Evelyn Scott: U.S. novelist, playwright, and poet, 1893-1963)

BELIEFS : A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. (Saul Bellow: Canadian-American writer who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts, 1915-2005)

BELIEFS : Belief is harder to shake than knowledge. (Adolf Hitler: German leader of the Nazi Party who initiated World War II in Europe, 1889-1945)

BELIEFS : Believing is where we cannot prove. (Alfred L. Tennyson: British poet who was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during most of Queen Victoria's reign, 1809-1892)

BELIEFS : By night an atheist half-believes in God. (Edward Young: English poet, critic, and theologian, 1683-1765)

BELIEFS : Certitude is not the test of certainty. But certainty is generally illusion. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.: U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

BELIEFS : Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

BELIEFS : Disbelief is a form of belief. (Unknown Source: )

BELIEFS : Everyone has a belief system, B.S., the trick is to learn not to take anyone's B.S. too seriously, especially your own. (Robert A. Wilson: U..S. author, futurist, psychologist, and self-described agnostic mystic., 1932-2007)

BELIEFS : Faith is to believe what we do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. (St. Augustine: Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.)

BELIEFS : I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist, and Confucian. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

BELIEFS : I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. (Susan B. Anthony: U.S. Quaker social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)

BELIEFS : I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experience. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

BELIEFS : In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or become true. (John Lilly: U.S. physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, writer, and inventor, 1915-2001)

BELIEFS : It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. (Voltaire: )

BELIEFS : Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

BELIEFS : Never let yourself be diverted by what you wish to believe. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

BELIEFS : No amount of belief makes something a fact. (James Randi: Canadian-American retired stage magician and a scientific skeptic who has extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims, Born 1928)

BELIEFS : One must be very naive or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation. (Claude Levi-Strauss: Belgium-born French anthropologist and ethnologist who has been called, the ‘Father of modern anthropology,’ 1908-2009)

BELIEFS : Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. (Philip K. Dick: U.S. science-fiction writer whose authorship included 44 published novels, 1928-1982)

BELIEFS : Religion is not removed by removing superstition. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

BELIEFS : The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new. (Pema Chodron: U.S. Tibetan Buddhist nun, Born 1936)

BELIEFS : This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)

BELIEFS : We are what we believe we are. (Benjamin N. Cardozo: U.S. lawyer and jurist, 1870-1938)

BELIEFS : We must believe before we can doubt, and doubt before we can deny. (W. H. Auden: English-American poet, 1907-1973)

BELIEFS : What a man believes, he will die for. What a man merely thinks, he will change his mind about. (Unknown Source: )

BELIEFS : What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952) (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

BELIEFS : William James used to preach the 'will-to-believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will-to-doubt.' What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

BELIEFS : With most people, doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another. (George C. Lichtenberg: German experimental physicist, satirist, and Anglophile, 1742-1799,)

BELIEFS : You have to believe in gods to see them. (Hopi proverb: )

BELIEVABILTY : Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. (J. Pettit-Senn: Swiss poet, 1792-1870)

BELONGINGNESS : True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are. (Brene Brown: U.S. research professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host, Born 1965)

BELONGINGS : The things people discard tell more about them than the things they keep (Hilda Lawrence: U.S. mystery writer, 1906-1976)

BENEFITS : When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own. (Unknown Source: )

BENEFITS : You cannot have your cake and eat it too. (Unknown Source: )

BEREAVEMENT : I tend to think that those who leave us will live even stronger in our lives as the years go by. (Donald DeGrasse: U.S. mechanical engineer, 1963-2019)

BETRAYAL : When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. (Isaac B. Singer: Polish-American writer in Yiddish, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a leading figure in the Yiddish Ashkenazic literary movement, 1902-1991)

BEVERAGES : Water is the only drink for a wise man. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

BEVERAGES : Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of all beverages. (Louis Pasteur: French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, 1822-1895)

BEWILDERMENT : I begin to suspect that a man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom. (Nathaniel Hawthorne: English novelist and short story writer, 1804-1864)

BEWILDERMENT : Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. It leads us to a wondrous path of being able to negotiate, to engage in dialogue, and to make compromises on a daily basis. (Unknown Source: )

BIAS : Certitude is not the test of certainty. But certainty is generally illusion. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.: U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

BIAS : Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

BIAS : Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized. (Eustace Haydon: Canadian Baptist minister, historian of religion, and recipient of the 'Humanist of the Year' award by the American Humanist Association, 1880-1975)

BIAS : If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. (George D. Aiken: U.S. senator, 1892-1984)

BIAS : Nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. (Herman Melville: U.S. novelist, short-story writer, 1819-1891)

BIAS : People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. (Max Eastman: U.S. journalist and poet, 1883-19691)

BIAS : They who dance are thought to be insane by those who hear not the music. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

BIAS : Too often, news organizations perpetuate biases—simply by driving in a rainstorm with broken wipers. (Tony Cox: U.S. radio and television journalist, Born 1958)

BIASES : Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance. (Verna Myers: U.S. diversity consultant, author, speaker, lawyer, and corporate executive)

BIBLE : Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

BIBLE : The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things. (Marcus J. Borg: U.S. New Testament scholar and theologian who was among the most widely known and influential voices in Liberal Christianity, 1942-2015)

BIBLE : The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. (Alfred N. Whitehead: English mathematician and philosopher whose studies have found application to a wide variety of disciplines, 1861-1947)

BICYCLES : Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. (H. G. Wells: )

BICYCLES : In the field of transportation, only the bicycle remains pure in heart. (Iris Murdoch: Irish novelist and philosopher who is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious, 1919-1999)

BILINGUALISM : No one is the worse for knowing two languages. (Oliver Mowat: Canadian lawyer, politician, and one of the Fathers of Confederation, 1820-1903)

BILINGUALISM : To know another language is to have a second soul. (Unknown Source: )

BILLIONAIRES : If you like easygoing, monogamous men, stay away from billionaires. (Rita Rudner: U.S. comedian, Born 1953)

BIOGRAPHY : Biography is the only true history. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

BIOLOGY : I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300. (Alan Watts: British philosopher who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. 1915-1973)

BIOLOGY : Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. (Theodosius Dobzhansky: Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, 1900-1975)

BIRTHDAYS : A birthday is a good time to begin anew: throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them on again. (Bronson Alcott: U.S. teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer, 1799-1888)

BIRTHDAYS : Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live. (Unknown Source: )

BIRTHDAYS : People who have the most birthdays live the longest. (Unknown Source: )

BIRTHDAYS : The number of trips around the sun equals age. (Unknown Source: )

Bisexuality : Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. (Rodney Dangerfield: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, producer, screenwriter, musician, and author, 1921-2004)

BITTERNESS : As I walked toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)

BITTERNESS : Bitterness is like a cancer that enters the soul. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

BITTERNESS : Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

BITTERNESS : The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. (Dan Reeves: U.S. Athlete and head coach of the National Football League, 1944-2022)

BITTERNESS : When you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere. (Andy Rooney: U.S. radio and television writer and broadcaster, 1919-2011)

BLAME : A bad rower blames the oar. (Icelandic Proverb: )

BLAME : A bad workman blames his tools. (French Proverb: )

BLAME : Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

BLAME : Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves. (Unknown Source: )

BLAME : As soon as I place the blame for my failure upon someone else, I limit my opportunities for growth. (Leo Buscaglia: U.S professor and a motivational speaker, 1924-1998)

BLAME : He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on the sea. (Unknown Source: )

BLAME : He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

BLAME : It is criminal to steal . . . but the blame diminishes as the guilt increases. (J.C.F Von Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937)

BLAME : To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

BLAME : To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential. (Unknown Source: )

BLAME : When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. (Unknown Source: )

BLASPHEMIES : All great truths begin as blasphemies. (Unknown Source: )

BLESSINGS : Blessings never come in pairs; misfortunes never come alone. (Chinese Proverb: )

BLINDNESS : Navajos have no word directly translatable for 'blindness;' it is called 'other-sightedness.' (Unknown Source: )

BLINDNESS : Of all the things that have happened to me, I think the least important was having been blind. (James Joyce: Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic, 1882-1941)

BLINDNESS : There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. (Paul Bourget: French novelist, critic, and a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1852-1935))

BLISS : Follow your bliss. Don't be afraid and doors will open where you would not have thought there were going to be doors. (Joseph Campbell: U.S. mythologist, writer, and lecturer, 1904-l987)

BLISS : Real bliss is to have peace of mind. (Deepak Chopra: Indian-American author, as an alternative medicine advocate, and a prominent figure in the New Age movement, Born 1946)

BLUFF : Call my bluff or take my guff. (Unknown Source: )

BLUNDERS : Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

BLUSHING : Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

BOASTFULNESS : If a cock ruffles his feathers, he is easy to pluck. (Burmese Proverb: )

BOLDNESS : A decent boldness ever meets with friends. (Homer: Legendary author of the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey,' two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature, late eighth or early seventh century B.C.E.)

BOLDNESS : Fortune favors the audacious. (Desiderius Erasmus: Dutch philosopher and scholar, considered to have been one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance. (1466-1536))

BOLDNESS : Fortune favors the bold. (Terence: Roman playwright during the Roman Republic, of Berber descent, c. 170—160 B.C.E.)

BOLDNESS : The fearful are caught as often as the bold. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

BOOK LOVERS : Book lovers never go to bed alone. (Unknown Source: )

BOOK-BANNING : A book worth banning is a book worth reading. (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

BOOK-BANNING : Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. (Stephen Chbosky: U.S. screenwriter, film producer, film director, novelist, television writer, and television producer, Born 1970)

BOOK-BANNING : What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939)

BOOKS : A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. (Salman Rushdie: British Indian novelist and essayist, Born 1947)

BOOKS : A book is like a garden carried in the pocket (Chinese Proverb: )

BOOKS : A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us. (Franz Kafka: German language writer of novels and short stories, 1883-1924)

BOOKS : A book whose sale is forbidden / all men wish to see / and the ban turns one reader into three. (Italian Proverb: )

BOOKS : A book worth banning is a book worth reading. (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

BOOKS : A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. (Mignon McLaughlin: U.S journalist and author, 1913-1983)

BOOKS : A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. (William Styron: U.S. novelist, essayist, and recipient of major literary awards, 1925-2006)

BOOKS : A house without books is like a house without windows. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859)

BOOKS : Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. (Stephen Chbosky: U.S. screenwriter, film producer, film director, novelist, television writer, and television producer, Born 1970)

BOOKS : Books are humanity in print. (Barbara Tuchman: U.S. historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, 1912-1989)

BOOKS : Books are the quietest and most constant of friends. (Charles W. Eliot: U.S. academic who was the longest serving [50 years] president of Harvard University, 1834-1926)

BOOKS : Books think for me. (Charles Lamb: English poet and essayist, 1775-1834)

BOOKS : Books, minds, and umbrellas only work if they’re open. (Unknown Source: )

BOOKS : Good books don't give up all their secrets at once. (Stephen King: U.S. author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, horror, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels, Born, 1947)

BOOKS : Having a huge number of books is not exactly about reading them all; it’s about having the possibility of reading them. (Unknown Source: )

BOOKS : I cannot live without books. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

BOOKS : If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. (Arthur Helps: English writer, 1813-1875)

BOOKS : Never lend books—nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924)

BOOKS : No two persons ever read the same book. (Edmund Wilson: U.S. writer and critic who explored Freudian and Marxist themes and who influenced many U.S. authors, 1895-1972)

BOOKS : Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book. (Walter Sickert: German-born British painter and print-maker, 1860-1942)

BOOKS : Our backs tell stories our books have no spine to carry. (Rupi Kaur: Indian-Canadian poet, writer, illustrator, and performer, Born 1992)

BOOKS : Read one thousand books AND walk one thousand miles. (Unknown Source: )

BOOKS : Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

BOOKS : Some men have only one book in them; others, a library. (Sydney Smith: English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric, 1771-1845)

BOOKS : The books that the world calls immoral books are books that show the world its own shame. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

BOOKS : The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. (Walt Whitman: U.S. essayist, journalist, and poet, known as the 'Father of Free Verse,' 1819-1992)

BOOKS : The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. (Anthony Trollope: English novelist whose works revolve around political, social, and gender issues, 1815-1882)

BOOKS : The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. (Northrop Frye: Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century, 1912-1991)

BOOKS : The only difference between fiction and non-fiction is that fiction should be completely believable. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

BOOKS : The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page. (St. Augustine: Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.)

BOOKS : There is no friend as loyal as a book. (Ernest Hemingway: U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)

BOOKS : There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away / Nor any spirited horses like a page / Of prancing poetry. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886)

BOOKS : There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind. (Mary W. Montague: English aristocrat, writer, and poet, 1689-1762)

BOOKS : There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

BOOKS : To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer who was among the most popular writers of his era, 1874-1965)

BOOKS : We read books to find out who we are. (Ursula K. LeGuin: U.S. author of fantasy and science fiction, Born 1929)

BOOKS : What is reading a book but silent conversation? (Walter S. Landor: English writer, poet, and activist, 1775-1864)

BOOKS : What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939)

BOOKS : When I am dead, I hope it may be said: “His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.” (Hilaire Belloc: Anglo-French writer and historian, political activist, and one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century, 1870-1993)

BOOKS : When you have a book, you’re never alone. (Susan Wiggs: U.S. author of historical and contemporary romance novels, Born 1958)

BOOKS : When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before. (Clifton Fadiman: U.S. editor, critic, radio and television personality, 1904-1999)

BOOKS : You can use books to install new software into your brain. (Unknown Source: )

BOOKS : You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end -- much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you. (Brenda Ueland: U.S. journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing, 1891-1985)

BOREDOM : A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

BOREDOM : Boredom is simply the lack of imagination. (Julie O. Smith: U.S. psychologist, Born 1988)

BOREDOM : Boredom, like necessity, is very often the mother of invention. (Unknown Source: )

BOREDOM : Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. (Charles C. Colton: English cleric, writer, and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832)

BOREDOM : Man is the only animal that can be bored. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)

BOREDOM : The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. (Dorothy Parker: U.S. writer, satirist, social critic, 1893-1967)

BOREDOM : The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good. (Theodore Haecker: German writer, translator, and cultural critic, 1879-1945)

BOREDOM : Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

BORROWING : Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

BORROWING : Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

BOUNDARIES : The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. (Arthur C. Clarke: U.S. science fiction writer and undersea explorer, 1917-2008)

BOYS : Boys will be boys. (English proverb: )

BRAIN : An idle brain is the Devil's workshop. (Unknown Source: )

BRAIN : Where my heart lies, let my brain lie also. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889)

BRASS : Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)

BRAVERY : As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery. (Norman Mailer: U.S. novelist, journalist, and liberal political activist, 1923-2007)

BRAVERY : Bravery is acknowledging your fear and doing it anyway. (Cheryl Strayed: U.S. writer and podcast host, Born 1968)

BRAVERY : Courage is not the absence of fear or despair, but the strength to conquer them. (Danielle Steel: U.S. internationally bestselling novelist, Born 1947)

BRAVERY : I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies. (Unknown Source: )

BRAVERY : I would rather die standing in resistance than begging on my knees! (Emiliano S. Zapata: Mexican iconic figure who was a foremost leader in the Mexican Revolution, 1879-1919)

BRAVERY : It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! (Delores Ibarruri: Spanish Communist leader and political orator during the Spanish Civil War, 1895-1989)

BRAVERY : It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. (J. K. Rowling: British novelist who is best known for writing the 'Harry Potter' fantasy series., Born 1965)

BRAVERY : Leap, and the net will appear. (Julia Cameron: U.S. artist, writer, and composer, Born 1948)

BRAVERY : Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977)

BRAVERY : No guts, no glory! (Frederick C. Blesse: U.S. U.S. Air Force major general and flying ace. (1921-2012))

BRAVERY : No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm. (Charles F. Kettering: U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958)

BRAVERY : None but the brave deserves the fair. (John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, and England's first Poet Laureate, 1631-1700)

BRAVERY : Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage. (Wendell Phillips: U.S. attorney, abolitionist, and advocate for Native Americans, 1811-1884)

BRAVERY : Real courage is moving forward when the outcome is uncertain. (Unknown Source: )

BRAVERY : The key to change . . . is to let go of fear. (Rosanne Cash: U.S. singer-songwriter, author, and the eldest daughter of country musician Johnny Cash, Born 1955)

BRAVERY : There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. (John Wainwright: British columnist and crime novelist of 83 books [pen name of Jack Ripley], 1921-1995)

BRAVERY : Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are endangered. (Johann (Jean) P. Richter: German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. 1763-1825)

BREAD : Bread is like the sun; it rises in the yeast and sets in the waist. (Unknown Source: )

BREAD : Bread is the staff of life. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

BREAD : Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure. (Randle Cotgrave: English lexicographer, who compiled and published 'A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues', a bilingual dictionary that represented a breakthrough at the time, Died 1934)

BREVITY : Brevity is the soul of wit. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

BREVITY : Epigrams succeed where epics fail. (Persian Proverb: )

BREVITY : If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. (Robert Southey: English poet of the Romantic school and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years, 1774-1843)

BREVITY : The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. (William Penn: U.S. writer, Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania, known for his advocacy of democracy and religious freedom, and notable for his good relations with the Lenape Native Americans, 1644-1718)

BRIBERY : Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. (George Washington: U.S. politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1732-1799)

BRIDGES : Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. (Isaac Newton: English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution, 1642-1727)

BRIDGES : Walls don't work. . . . Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges. (James Stavridis: U.S. retired U.S. naval admiral and chair of the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, Born 1955)

BRILLIANCE : There are many lost 'Einsteins' who would have made enormous contributions had they been allowed to reach their full potential. (Unknown Source: )

BROTHERHOOD : Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival. (Carlos P. Romulo: Filipino diplomat, statesman, soldier, journalist, and author, 1899-1985)

BROTHERHOOD : I am a man; I count nothing human foreign to me. (Unknown Source: )

BROTHERHOOD : I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

BROTHERHOOD : Live together like brothers and do business like strangers (Unknown Source: )

BROTHERS : A brother is a friend given by nature. (Gabriel Legouve: French writer, 1764-1812)

BROTHERS : A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

BROTHERS : Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other—they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other. (Leonardo DiCaprio: U.S. actor and film director, Born 1974)

BUDDHISM : Buddhism is not a religion; it is rather a science of the mind. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

BUDGETING : Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

BUDGETING : It is good to have things that money can buy, but it is also good to check up once in a while and be sure we have the things money can't buy. (George H. Lorimer: U.S. journalist, author, and publisher, who is best known as the editor for 37 years of 'The Saturday Evening Post,' 1867-1937)

BUDGETING : Live below your means but within your needs. (Suze Orman: U.S. author, financial advisor, and television host, Born 1951)

BUDGETING : Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? (Unknown Source: )

BUDGETING (U.S.A.) : If even one percent of our defense budget were given to diplomacy, it would quadruple the amount we are currently spending on diplomacy. (Joseph Nye: U.S. political scientist and author of "Soft Power," Born 1937)

BULLETS : Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. (Martin Amis: British novelist, Born 1949)

BULLYING : A bully is always a coward. (English proverb: )

BULLYING : Bullying is children experimenting with social power. (Unknown Source: )

BULLYING : Call my bluff or take my guff. (Unknown Source: )

BULLYING : I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

BULLYING : When foxes guard the henhouses, the hens don't flourish. (Unknown Source: )

BURDENS : God gives burdens, also shoulders. (Yiddish Proverb: )

BURDENS : It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. (Lena Horne: U.S. singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist, 1917-2010)

BURDENS : The burden is equal to the horse's strength. (Talmud: Compilation of ancient teachings regarded as sacred and normative by Jews)

BURDENS : The heaviest burden that we carry are the thoughts in our head. (Tamara Kulish: )

Bureaucracy : The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night. (Otto von Bismarck: Prussian conservative statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s until 1890, by which he united Germany, and formed the German Empire, 1815-1898)

BURGLARS : The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

BURIAL : Six feet of dirt make all men equal. (Unknown Source: )

BUSINESS : A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

BUSINESS : A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. (Paul Valery: French poet, essayist, and philosopher, 1871-1945)

BUSINESS : A company is judged by the president it keeps. (Unknown Source: )

BUSINESS : A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps. (Thomas J. Watson: U.S. businessman who served as the chairman and CEO of IBM - International Business Machines. 1874-1956)

BUSINESS : Capital is past savings accumulated for future production. (Jackson Martindell: U.S. financier, management consultant, and onetime publisher of 'Who's Who in America', 1901-1990)

BUSINESS : Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty (Mason Cooley: U.S. aphorist, Born 1927)

BUSINESS : Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital. (Unknown Source: )

BUSINESS : Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. (Laurence J. Peter: Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the 'Peter Principle- managers rise to the level of their incompetence,' 1919-1990)

BUSINESS : I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

BUSINESS : It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

BUSINESS : Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

BUSINESS : Live together like brothers and do business like strangers (Unknown Source: )

BUSINESS : Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it. (Laurence J. Peter: Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the 'Peter Principle- managers rise to the level of their incompetence,' 1919-1990)

BUSINESS : Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

BUSINESS : People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. (Adam Smith: Scottish economist and moral philosopher who laid the foundations of classical free market economic theory 1723-1790)

BUSINESS : The man who builds a factory builds a temple; And the man who works there worships there. (Calvin Coolidge: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. governor and later as the 30th President of the United States, 1872-1933)

BUSINESS : The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. (Aristotle Onassis: Greek shipping magnate and husband of Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, 1906-1975)

BUSINESS : The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. (Unknown Source: )

BUSINESS : We never thought of it as customer service. We just treat people how we would want to be treated. (Sally Strebel: U.S. professional manager)

BUSINESS (U.S.A.) : Gross National Product is our Holy Grail. (Stewart L. Udall: U.S. politician and later, a federal government official, 1920-2010)

BUSINESS (U.S.A.) : The business of America is business. (Calvin Coolidge: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. governor and later as the 30th President of the United States, 1872-1933)

BUSYNESS : One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other. (Unknown Source: )

BUSYNESS : Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

BUTTERFLIES : Most butterflies live only 8–10 days but they count not months but moments, And have time enough. (Rabindranath Tagore: a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)