Isaac Babal
No iron can stab the heart with such force as a fullstop put just at the right place.
Lauren Bacall
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Christian Bach
We live in a 'Yes...But' society
Johann Sebastian Bach
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Inge Bachmann
If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.
Francis Bacon
Age will not be defied.
Riches are for spending.
To choose time is to save time
All colors will agree in the dark.
God Almighty first planted a garden.
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
I would live to study, and not study to live.
All rising to great place is by a winding stair.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
It is a secret, both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things at once.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but ocean.
If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Joan Baez
Action is the antidote to despair.
The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
Walter Bagehot
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
The Queen must sign her own death-warrant if the two houses unanimously send it up to her.
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Neta Bahcall
The universe is underweight.
Pearl Bailey
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
Josephine Baker
To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.
Michael Bakunin
The urge for destruction is indeed a creative urge.
Alec Baldwin
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
James Baldwin
Every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
Money was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
We can disagree and still love each other unless our disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.
Stanley Baldwin
There are three classes which need sanctuary more than others - birds, wild flowers and prime Ministers.
Arthur James Balfour
The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.
Lucille Ball
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
Balzac
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Conventions are often more cruel than the law.
The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism ruled over by dwarfs.
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
I am not deep, but I am very wide, and it takes time to walk around me.
It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.
Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Nothing fortifies a friendship more than a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Hatred is a tonic, i tmakes one live, it inspires vengenace; but pity kills, it makes one's weakness weaker.
We exaggerate both misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Despotism manages great things illegally; liberty doesn't even bother of accomplishing small things legally.
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty day after day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Bambi
If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all.
Peter Bamm
Working makes always a bit of noise. But creating comes out of silence.
Adam Bandt
Poverty is a political choice.
Tallulah Bankhead
I am as pure as the driven slush.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Joseph Banks
Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales after it has sunk in Europe.
Nancy Banks-Smith
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
Imamu Amiri Baraka
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and airconditioning.
Carl Bard
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Brigitte Bardot
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Daniel Barenboim
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Julian Barnes
The reward of merit is not life's business.
...marriage is a long dull meal with the pudding served first. (both: 'The Sense of an Ending')
Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex. ('Talking It Over')
P.T.Barnum
Money is a terrible master, but an excellent servant.
Amelia E. Barr
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
James Barrie
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Jean-Noel Barrot
Technological dominance precedes economic dominance and political dominance.
John D. Barrow
Once upon a time there was no Time.
Ethel Barrymore
You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself.
John Barrymore
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
Bela Bartok
Competitions are for horses, not for artists.
Bernard M. Baruch
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Jeremy Bass
True humility, as we mere mortals know, lies in defeat, from which comes true insight into the importance of ordinariness.
Judie Bassingthwaighte
Oh Lord, you have given us our freedom, now help us to hold on to our dream.
Charles Baudelaire
Wine transforms moles into eagles.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
Gottfried Baum
There are moods and insights which can only be expressed in words which don't exist yet.
Vicki Baum
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Roy F. Baumeister
Bad is stronger than Good.
Bad impressions and bad stereotypes are quicker to form and more resistant to disconfirmation
than good ones.
Arnold Bax
You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
Charles A.Beard
Perpetual war for perpetual peace.
Mary Beard
If you can learn something, you can unlearn it.
Cecil Beaton
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Paul Beatty
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
Francis Beaumont
There is no other purgatory but a woman.
Simone de Beauvoir
Buying is a profound pleasure.
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Old age is particularly difficult to assume because we always regarded it as something alien, a foreign species.
('The Coming of Age')
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
One's life has value as long as one contributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
It's frightening to think that you stamp your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.
Lord Beaverbrook
Business is more exciting than any game.
August Bebel
If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.
Samuel Beckett
He can't think without his hat.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful. (all above 'Waiting for Godot')
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. ('Worstward Ho')
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.
Sir Thomas Beecham
I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
H.C. Beeching
I am master of this college / what I don't know isn't knowledge.
Beethoven
If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?
There is a higher revelation in music than in all wisdom and philosophy.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.
Aphra Behn
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
Brendan Behan
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Ross Grayson Bell
You have to break yourself apart to build something better.
Hilaire Belloc
When I am dead I hope it may be said: 'his sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
Adam Bellow
Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.
Saul Bellow
Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
It is sometimes necessary to repeat what we all know. All map makers should place the Mississippi in the same location
and avoid originality.
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Charm is the ability to make others forget that you look as you do.
Robert Benchley
In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with children.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Pope Benedict XVI
Forgiveness does not replace justice.
David Ben-Gurion
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
Sir William Gurney Benham
The sin is not in the sinning, but in the being found out.
Walter Benjamin
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Traces of the storyteller cling to the story the way the handprints of the potter cling to the clay vessel.
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
Tony Benn
A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for.
Jeremy Bentham
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
The question is not, can they (animals) reason? - can they talk? - but can they suffer.
Where there is no publicity there is no justice. … It keeps the judge himself while trying under trial.
The sad truth is: it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Tim Benton
The way we produce food, consume and waste food, is unsustainable from a planetary perspective.
Diana Beresford-Kroeger
(Trees are)...molecular machines. And they are intelligent machines that are capable of farming the photons of the sun.
Chris Berg
Foreign policy is domestic politics with translators.
The problem with global warming isn't the warming per se, it's the consequences of warming.
Ingrid Bergman
I hope I never get so old to become religious.
Happiness is good health and bad memory.
A kiss is a lovely trick of nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Irving Berlin
Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.
Hector Berlioz
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Ben Bernanke (Chairman of US Federal Reserve)
Too big to fail is one of the biggest problems we face in this country, and we must take action to eliminate too big to fail.
Yogi Berra
You can see a lot by observing.
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
It's rough to make predictions, especially about the future.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up some place else.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Wendell Berry
The Earth is what we all have in common.
Alex Berryhill
Technologies are tools, not solutions.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone
The church is opposed to cloning but might change its attitude if Sophia Loren could be cloned.
Joseph Beuys
Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.
Aneurin Bevan
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Jeff Bezos
You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you are going to innovate.
Invention is the root of our success. We've done crazy things together, and then made them normal.
Homi K. Bhabha
The state of emergency is also always a state of emergence.
Shobo Bhattacharya
In science you cannot be second, because the first person at the frontier is the frontier.
Benazir Bhutto
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
George Bidault
The weak have one weapon: the mistakes of those who think they are strong.
Joe Biden
All politics is personal.
American leadership is what holds the world together.
Journalists are indispensable to the functioning of democracy.
Democracy doesn't happen by mistake. We have to renew it with each generation.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Ambrose Bierce
Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Religion is the daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to ignorance the Unknowable.
Steven Biko
The liberal must understand that the days of the Noble Savage are gone.
The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.
Otto on Bismarck
Politics is not an exact science.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Let's afford the luxury to have an own opinion.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
A journalist is someone who has mistaken his calling.
A person who does not like nature disappoints me. I almost distrust him.
They never lie more than before the election, during the war and after the hunt.
The less people know how sausages and laws are made the better they can sleep.
After you have survived an enemy of equal standing you discovers that something is missing.
I regard even a victorious war as an evil, which diplomacy must make all effort to spare the people.
Don't lets make the mistake of doubting sense or goodwill of everyone who is of a different opinion.
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
The great questions of one's time will not be solved by speeches and majority decisions, but by iron and blood.
Lawrence Blair
When a myth is shared by a large number of people, it becomes reality. ('Rhytms of Vision')
Tony Blair
I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.
You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.
William Blake
Exhuberance is beauty.
Heaven is in a grain of sand.
One thought fills immensity.
Joys impregnate, Sorrows bring forth.
Expect poison from the standing water.
The fox condemns the trap, not himself.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
Excess of sorrow laughs, Excess of joy weeps.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
If the fool would persist in her folly she would become wise.
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius.
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curs on the fairest of joys.
Blayney Uniting Church
Plans don't work until you do.
Antony Blinken
You can win a battle, but it doesn't mean you win the war.
You can take a city, but you can't take the hearts and minds of its people.
Ernst Bloch
We have to learn how to hope.
Time is a clock without figures.
Every clarification breeds new questions.
Time exists only through action, and is where action is.
The fake looks different from the original – because it looks more authentic.
Charles M. Blow
Faith, which doesn't require evidence, can be fed and affirmed by things that aren't true.
Giovanni Boccacio
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
Maxwell Bodenheim
For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.
Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
No lovers can pet forever.
With the first sun all the stars disappear.
Flowers and weeds grow from the same soil.
He doesn't deserve wine who drinks it like water.
Zeros make a large fortune as long as they follow the One.
Intelligent talk is often difficult - intelligent silence even more so.
The wise man is rarely clever - and the clever one not always wise.
Ludwig Börne
Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.
Niels Bohr
Who isn't shocked by quantum theory hasn't understood it.
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.
(referring to Quantum Mechanics)
Simon Bolivar
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.
Jared Bolsonaro
A cop who doesn't kill isn't a cop.
Erma Bombeck
If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.
Pierre Bonnard
Drawing is sensation, colour is reasoning.
Bono
The less you know the more you believe.
Edward de Bono
Without creativity there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same pattern.
Daniel Boorstin
The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.
Celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.
The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark.
Clare Booth Luce
No good deed goes unpunished.
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
Victor Borge
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Jorge Luis Borges
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Alain de Botton
The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.
Religions are choreographers of spiritual, or psychological moments.
Massimo Bottura
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Elizabeth Bowen
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Ezra Bowen
If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.
Paul Bowles
Things don't happen, it depends upon who comes along.
David Bowie
Ageing is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.
Ray Bradbury
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
James Bradley
There is no inevitability about history, only contingencies, probabilities and chance.
(reviewing the book ‘Resistance')
Louis D. Brandeis
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
The right to be alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes the law breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law onto himself.
Marlon Brando
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
Willie Brandt
We want to risk more democracy.
As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.
We need the challenge from the young generation. Without it our feet would fall asleep.
Richard Branson
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
The world will always assume something can't be done, until you do it.
Robert Brault
The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.
Wernher von Braun
Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
Science has no moral dimension. It is like a knife. You can give it to a surgeon or a murderer: each will handle it differently.
Berthold Brecht
The fate of man is man.
War always finds a way.
Right is its own defense.
Don't tell me peace has broken out.
Unhappy the land that needs a hero.
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
It's never too late for those whose time has come.
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore.
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.
Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
Clemens von Brentano
Only love knows the secret to give to others and become richer oneself.
Paul Brereton
Corruption erodes public trust in government and the institutions of state and undermines democracy.
André Bréton
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
Elodie Briefer
People will soon start to realise that emotions are the main part of (animal) welfare, even more important than health.
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Benjamin Britten
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Emely Bronte
A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
David Brooks
Emotion is the foundation of reason. (‘New Scientist’ 19.3.2011)
Mel Brooks
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall down an open sewer and die.
Les Brown
It's important to me that money not be important to me.
William D. Brown
Failure is an event, never a person.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.
Robert Browning
A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Lenny Bruce
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
Anton Bruckner
Who wants to build tall towers has to spend a lot of time on the foundation.
William Jennings Bryan
Freedom of speech does not give a person the right to yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre.
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for; but rather something to be achieved.
Kobe Bryant
The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once...
Nick Bryant
Conventional wisdom is not so reliable in unconventional times.
Bill Bryson
From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.
Martin Buber
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
Art Buchwald
The best things in life aren't things.
Pearl S.Buck
Love comes out of heaven unasked and unsought.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
I am so absorbed in the wonder of Earth and life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
William F. Buckley jr.
A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling stop!
Buddha
To see the truth, neither be for or against it.
Jimmy Buffet
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
Warren Buffett
A rising tide lifts all boats.
Be greedy when others are fearful.
Don't ask the barber whether you need a hair cut.
Never invest in a business you don't understand.
You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out.
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who is swimming naked.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
The pen is mightier than the sword.
The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
A fool flatters himself - a wise man flatters the fool.
Talent does what it can - genius does what it must.
Not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
If you wish to be loved show more of your faults than your virtues.
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
When a person is down in the world an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger cancelled often hardens into revenge.
Luther Burbank
Flowers are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Jacob Burckhardt
History loves to condense itself into one person whom the world obeys.
Edmund Burke (Irish statesman and philosopher)
All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
James Lee Burke
All Empires have their dustbins. (‘Feast Day of Fools’)
History is the story that survives. (‘Swan Peak’)
Jail is not a place but a condition. (‘The Tin Roof Blowdown’)
Who said you have to die to go to hell? ('House of the Rising Sun')
The only real pacifists are dead Quakers. (‘Feast Day of Fools’)
A stupid man lets others deal the hand for him. (‘Feast Day of Fools’)
Cleverness is for people who have nothing to say. (‘House of the Rising Sun’)
People are driven by their vices, not their virtues. (‘House of the Rising Sun’)
Good people are the ones who get hurt the most.
I have never known a bully who was not a coward.
Do not speak unless you can improve the silence. (‘Feast Day of Fools’)
I might be crazy but it's kept me from going insane. (‘A Stained White Radiance’)
People are driven by their vices, not by their virtues. (‘House of the Rising Sun’)
Water runs downhill whether you think about it or not. (‘House of the Rising Sun’)
He called coincidence “the Lord acting with anonymity.” (‘House of the Rising Sun’)
Few people realize how much courage it takes to be a prostitute. (‘House of the Rising Sun’)
Mexico was not a country; it was a state of mind that never changed. (‘House of the Rising Sun’)
The standards for normalcy find a new low with each passing day. (‘Feast Day of Fools’)
When a man thinks too much, he's tempted to go beyond his limitations. (‘Feast Day of Fools’)
Don't underestimate the value of mental illness. It makes life a lot easier. ('Bitterroot')
I've always believed that normalcy is highly overrated and not to be confused with virtue. (‘A Private Cathedral’)
When it comes to money, power and sex are secondary issues. Money buys both of them, always.
(‘The Glass Rainbow’)
The dead don't let go of the world. That's why we put big stones on their graves. To hold them down.
(‘House of the Rising Sun’)
When you get to the end of the track, you don't regret the things you did. You regret the things you didn't do.
(‘Feast Day of Fools’)
People were not what they said. They were not what they thought. They were not what they promised. People were what they did. (‘House of the Rising Sun’)
When it comes to money, power and sex are secondary issues. Money buys both of them, always.
(‘The Glass Rainbow’)
One or two seemingly insignificant choices could open the door to a kingdom or sweep a man's destiny
into a dustbin. ('House of the Rising Sun')
Forbes Burnham
Consensus is something you have if you cannot have agreement.
George Burns
You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family ... in another city.
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
If you live to the age of a hundred, you've got it made. Because very few people die past the age of a hundred.
It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
John Burroughs
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
Leo Buscaglia
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
What you are is God's gift to you. What you become is your gift to God.
Wilhelm Busch
Stupidity is also a natural gift.
The good is the bad which we don't do.
Every wish, once fulfilled, brings forth new ones.
Tolerance is good - but not towards the intolerant.
Abstinence is the pleasure of things we can't have.
The sum of our lives are the hours when we were in love.
Even the smallest thing has its roots in infinity. It can never be fully understood.
George W.Bush
It is human choices that move events.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for power equal to your tasks.
Samuel Butler
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Faith is a kind of betting, or speculation.
The want of money is the root of all evil.
In law nothing is certain but the expense.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
The hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
A jail is not a geographical place. A jail is a condition.
The gods are those who either have money or do not want it.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then neither must death.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo, not for a man.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
To do great work, a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
The one serious conviction thyat a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
To himself everyone is immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
I reckon being ill is one of the great pleasures in life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture, or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
If God wants us to do things, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
Andrew Lee Butters
Talking with one's adversaries is the burden of peacemaking.
Larry Buttrose
We are miraculously conscious clumps of recycled atoms.
David Byrne
If this is paradise I wish I had a lawnmower.
James F.Byrnes
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Lord Byron
Friendship is Love without his wings.
The "good old times" -- all times when old are good.
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and everything "about, around, and underneath" man, except man himself.
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -- and in my esteem age is not estimable.