[Main]   [Me]   [Mates]   [Misc]   [Music]   [Musings]

Quotes
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z
 B
"Knowledge itself is power." - Francis Bacon 

"I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours." - Monica Baldwin 

"Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.  You may not like what you find.  In that case you are entitled to try to change it.  But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation." - Bernard M. Baruch

"Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us." - Francis Beaumont

"If you don't like someone, the way he holds his spoon will make you furious; if you do like him, he can turn his plate over into your lap and you won't mind." - Irving Becker

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson

"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way." - Josh Billings

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." - Josh Billings

"We will run amok together, and then, when we get tired, we will walk
amok." - Jimmy Bond

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet, "Meditations Divine and Moral," 1655

"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair." - Edmund Burke

"Tolerance is good for all, or it is good for none." - Edmund Burke

"Screw destiny! Destiny's just another word for inevitable. And nothing's inevitable if you stand up, look it in the eye and say, 'You're evitable.'" - Winifred Burkle