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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
- Roger Babson
you can't let success go to your head, there is always someone there watching and waiting to take your place when you finally fall down, and some aren't content just to watch and wait, some will make an effort to knock you down....but you can't let that knowledge make you weak either, you just have to keep trying, keep working your tuchas off to climb to the top and stay there

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
- Lauren Bacall

You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier.
- Jean Bach

Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
- Richard Bach

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
- Richard Bach

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
- Richard Bach
Illusions

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk or discourse, but to weigh and consider.
- Francis Bacon (1561-1620)

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Francis Bacon

Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
- Francis Bacon

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
- Francis Bacon

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
- Francis Bacon

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
- Francis Bacon

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study.
- Francis Bacon
Essays: Of Studies

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
- Bugs Baer (1886-1969)

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
- Joan Baez

I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one, why bother to be humble about it.
- Joan Baez

You can lean over backward so far that you fall flat on your face.
- Ben H. Bagdikian

I have received memos so swollen with managerial babble that they struck me as the literary equivalent of assault with a deadly weapon.
- Peter Baida

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
- Philip James Bailey (1816-1902)

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
- Pearl Bailey

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
- Pearl Bailey

You must change in order to survive.
- Pearl Bailey

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist
- Tammy Faye Baker

I take Him shopping with me. I say, 'OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain'.
- Tammy Faye Baker

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.
- Russell Baker
There's a Country in My Cellar

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
- -Christina Baldwin

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
- James Baldwin
this is so true, from the outside we only see the sugar candied coating of any job, we see the money, the prestige, the 401k...what we don't often stop to think about is what people have to go through just to get that sugar candided coating...the hard work, the stress, the politicing...we don't think about what efforts that need to be put forth to get the results we see

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
- James Baldwin

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
- James Baldwin

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
- James Baldwin
Notes of a Native Son

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
- James Baldwin

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
- Monica Baldwin

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

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

War would end if the dead could return.
- Stanley Baldwin

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
- Lucille Ball (1911-1989)

Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
- Lucille Ball (1911-1989)

The tree in which the sap is stagnant remains fruitless.
- Hosea Ballou

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power.
- Balzac

The most effective way to do it, is to DO IT.
- Toni Cade Bambara

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
- Tallulah Bankhead

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
- Tallulah Bankhead

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
- Tallulah Bankhead

Never practice two vices at once.
- Tallulah Bankhead

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'Id rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'
- Tallulah Bankhead

Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead.
- Roger Bannister
After becoming the first person to break the four minute mile, 1952

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
- Imamu Amiri Baraka

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
- Margaret Fairless Barber

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no 'top.'
- Nancy Barcus

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, 'Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.' Parents have to take better control.
- Charles Barkley
NBA Player

Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want.
- Clive Barnes

Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.
- Richard Barnfield

Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
- Amelia Barr

Excuse the mess but we live here.
- Roseanne Barr

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it.
- Rona Barrett

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
- James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937)

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
- James Matthew Barrie

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
- James Matthew Barrie

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
- James Matthew Barrie

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
- Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959)

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself. --Ethel Barrymore
- Ethel Barrymore

One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater is that I couldn't sit in the audience and watch me.
- John Barrymore

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world.
- Bruce Barton (1886-1967)

If you expect perfection from other people, your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumbling and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.--Bruce Barton
- Bruce Barton (1886-1967)

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
- Bernard M. Baruch

To me, old age is fifteen years older than I am.--Bernard M. Baruch
- Bernard M. Baruch

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
- Bernard M. Baruch

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
- Bernard M. Baruch

Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.
- Gerald Barzan

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be.
- Gerald Barzan

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.
- Kim Basinger

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments or publicity.
- Dr. O. A. Battista

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
- Dr. O. A. Battista

Nothing can be done except little by little.
- Charles Baudelaire

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
- Vicki Baum (1888-1960)

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
- Vicki Baum

Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings -- and they will always come back.
- L.L. Bean

The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it.
- Rebecca Beard

The wages of sin are increased circulation.
- John Beavan

Failure is usually the line of least persistence.
- Wilfred Beaver

All I need to know I learned from my cat.
- Suzy Becker

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.--Henry Ward Beecher
- Suzy Becker

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
- Suzy Becker

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.- Geoffrey Beene
- Suzy Becker

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
- Clay P. Bedford

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
- Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
English essayist, caricaturist, parodist from ?Conversations with Max?, by S.N. Behrman

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
- Max Beerbohm

Nobody ever died of laughter.
- Max Beerbohm

To give and not to feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
- Max Beerbohm

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
- Walter Begehot

When I came back to Dublin, I was court-martialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
- Brendan Behan (1923-1964)
The Hostage

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
- Brendan Behan

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
- Brendan Behan

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
- Brendan Behan

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
- Brendan Behan

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
- David Belasco

From quiet homes and first beginning,/Out to the undiscovered ends,/There's nothing worth the wear of winning,/But laughter and the love of friends.
- Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
English writer and poet

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
- Hillaire Belloc

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
- Robert Benchley

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.
- Robert Benchley

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
- Betty Bender

When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
- Betty Bender

To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language.
- Arlene Benedict
For Mother with Love

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
- Arnold Bennett

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
- Arnold Bennett

There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure.
- Dan Bennett

I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.
- Madame Benoit

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
- Arthur Christopher Benson

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
- Arthur Christopher Benson

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
- Arthur Christopher Benson

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
- Arthur Christopher Benson

When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of light into a burning point. Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
- Ezra Taft Benson

Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.
- Ivan Benson

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be around to say so.
- Eric Bentley

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
- Ingrid Bergman
unfortunately i have an excellent long term memory

Make good use of bad rubbish.
- Elizabeth Beresford

Query: Whether it be not delightful to complain? And whether there not be many who had rather utter their complaints than redress their evils?
- Bishop George Berkeley

Laughter is an instant vacation.
- Milton Berle

Committee--A group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
- Milton Berle

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it
- Irving Berlin

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
- Irving Berlin

...monstrous criminals who have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity
- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
about the Sept 11 NY WTC disaster

Hope is a risk that must be run.
- Georges Bernanos

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
- Thomas Bernhard

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
- Al Bernstein

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
- Yogi Berra

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

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.- Yogi Berra
- Yogi Berra

I have often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat.
- David Berry

There is a place in God's sun for the youth 'farthest down' who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.
- Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
- Ugo Betti (1892-1953)
Struggle Till Dawn, 1.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
- Aneurin Bevan

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
- Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. --Josh Billings
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
- Ambrose Bierce

Silence is one of the hardest things to refute.
- Josh Billings

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.
- Josh Billings
His Complete Works, 1888

Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.
- Josh Billings

I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
- Josh Billings

What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it.
- Stephen Birmingham

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.
- Jacqueline Bisset

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
- David Bissonette

An optimist is the human personification of spring.
- Susan J. Bissonette

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention. It is part of our collective lives, entwining our past and our future... a particularly rewarding aspect of life itself.
- Shirley Temple Black

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
- Shirley Temple Black

This was not an attack on America alone. This was an attack on the free and democratic world. And it is a responsibility the free and democratic world has to shoulder together.
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair
sept 11

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
- William Blake (1757-1827)

What is now proved was once imagined.
- William Blake

If a fool persists in his folly he shall become wise.
- William Blake

Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers. -
- Kenneth Blanchard
Putting the One Minute Manager to Work. 1984.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
- Tom Blandi

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.
- Brand Blanshard

To be happy, drop the words 'if only,' and substitute instead the words 'next time.'
- Dr. Smiley Blanton