Babies do not want to hear about babies,they like to be told of giants and castles,and that which can stretch and stimulate their little minds.
- Samuel Johnson,Miscellanies -
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet unfolded.
- Byron -
No the world must be peopled.When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
- Shakespeare,Much Ado About Nothing -
All reformers are bachelors.
- George More,The Bending of the Bough -
Because I will not do the wrong to mistrust any,I will do myself the right to trust none; I will live a bachelor.
- Shakespeare -
Ballands are vocal portraits of the national mind.
- Lamb -
The Banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair and takes it away when it rains.
- Anon -
Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.
- Sir P. Sidney -
Beard was never the true standard of brains.
- Fuller -
There is no excellent beauty that hath and some strangeness in the proportion.
- Francis Bacon, Essays of beauty -
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
- bacon -
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever, Its loveliness increasses : it will never Pass into nothingness. Beauty is truth's smile.
- Keats -
When she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Tagore,Fireflies -
Ay;beaut's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.
- Shakespeare,Henry VI -
Beauty is a short-lived reign.
- Socrates -
Early to bed early to rise. Makes a man healthy,wealthyand wise.
- Franklin,Poor Richard's Almanac for 1735 -
The rise with the lark,and go to bed with the lamb.
- Nicholas Breton,Court of Country -
O bed,delicious bed ! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
- Hood,Miss Kismansegg -
Beggars must not be choosers.
- Beaumont andFleatchers,Scornful lady -
Borrowing is not much better than begging.
- Lessing,Nathan the wise -
He who begs timidly courts refusal.
- Seneca,Hippalytue -
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
- Burton,Anatomy of Melancholy -
Do worng to none.
- Shakespeare,All's Well that Ends Well -
Those that are good mannered at that court are as ridiculous in the country as the behaviour of the country is most mockable at the court.
- Shakespeare,As you like it -
Blessed are they that have not seen,and yet have believed.
- New Testament,John xx,29 -
A man must not swallow more belief than he can digest.
- Haxelock Hills,The Dance of Life -
Athing that nobody belives cannot be proved too often.
- G.B.Shaw,Devil's Disciple -
Ring out the old,ring in the new, Ring,Happy bells across the snow.
- Tennyson,In Memoriam -
Who is to bell the cat.It is easy to propose impossible remedies.
- Acheson -
To do well to bad man is as great a danger as to do in a good one.
- Ploutus,Panulus -
He child their wanderings but relieved their pain.
- Goldsmith,Deserted Village -
Benevolent feeling ennobles the most trifling actions. What, all my pretty chickens and their dam. At one fell swoop?
- Shakespeare,Macbeth -
Alon at night, I read my Bible more anyEuclid less.
- Robert Buchanan -
The book of books,the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort,the Holy Scriptures.
- Herbert,Priest to the Temple -
The Bible is a window in this prison of hope through which we may look into eternity.
- Dwight -
Would that every Johnson in the world had his vertical Boswell or leash of Boswell.
- Carlyle,Voltaire -
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
- Carlyle -
The pleasing punishment that women bear.
- Shakespeare,Comedy,of Errors -
What it is that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral?It is because we are not the person concerned?
- Mark Twain,Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calender -
Lady you are the cruellest alive. If you will lead those graces to the grave. And leave the world no copy.
- Shakespeare,Twelfth Night -
Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerble in his native place.
- Johnson,Letter 1770 -
But hushed be every thought that springs. From out the bitterness of things.
- Wordsworth,Elegiac -
I had most need of blessing and "Amen". Struck in my throat.
- Shakespeare,Macbeth -
"God bless us every one"! said Tiny Tim, the last of all:
- Dickens,A Christmas Carol -
They he blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind,both shall fall into the ditch. New Testament,Mathew - To live a life half dead a living death.
- Milton,Samson Agonistes -
It was dream of perfect bliss Too beatiful to last.
- T.K.Bayly,It was a Dream -
A block head cannot come in,nor go away, nor sit,nor rise nor stand,like a man of sense.
- Bruyere -
Blood is thicker than water.
- John Ray,English Prov. -
Feat at my heart,as at a cup.My life-blood seem'd to sip.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
It was worse than a crime;it was blunder.
- Fouche -
It was disgraceful to stumble twice aginst the same stone.
- Greek Proverb -
The rudeness is a sense to his good wit Which gives men stomach to digest his words with better appetite.
- Shakespeare,Julius Caeser -
Better a blush on the face than blot on the heart.
- Carvante -
A blush is the colour of virtue.
- Diogenes -
A killing tongue,but a quite sword.
- Shakespeare -
Ah,this thou should'nt have done, And not have spoke on't.
- Shakespeare,Antony and Cleopatra -
Where boasting ends,there dignity begins.
- Young -
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul;a sick body is a prison
- Bacon -
If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.
- Walt Whitman,I Sing the Body Electric -
What action is to the orator,that boldness is to the public man first,second and third.
- Bacon,Insurative -
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dare do more is none.
- Shakespeare,Macbeth -
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- Pope -
Books without the knowledge of life are useless,for what should books teach but the art of living ?
- Jhonson -
Laws die,Books never.
- Bulwer,Lytton -
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit,embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
- Milton,Areopagitica -
Dreams,books,are each a world,and books,we know.
- Wordsworth,Personal Talk -
Some books are to be tasted,others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Bacon,Essays of Studies -
Books are the shrine where the saint is, or is believed to be.
- Bacon,To Sir Bodely -
Boots.....boots....boots....boots movin'up and down again.There's no discharge in the war!
- Kipling,boots -
The sacret of boring is the practice of saying everything.
- Voltaire -
One of the best things in the world to be is a bore;it requires no experience,but needs some practice to be a good one.
-Charles Dudley Warner,Being a Boy -
The borrower is servant to the lender.
- Proverb -
Neither a borrower nr a lended be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- Shakespeare -
The smiles and tears of boyhood's years. The words of love then spoken.
- Thomas Moore,Oft in the Silly Night -
The best hearts are ever the bravest.
- Sterne -
Man shall not live by bread alone.
- Mathew,Old Testament -
O,God!that bread should be so dear, And flesh and bloodso cheap!
- Thomas Hood,The Song of the Shirt -
Good breeding is the blossom of sense.
- Young,Love of Fame -
Brevity is the soul of wit.
- Shakespeare,Hamlet -
Since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limits and outward flourishers I will be brief.
- Shakespeare,Hamlet -
Every man has his price.
- Sir Robert Walpole -
Judges and senates have been bought for gold. Esteem and love were never to be sold.
- Pope,Essay on Man -
Too poor for a bribe,and too pround to importune. He had not the method of making a fortune.
- Grey,On his Own Character -
Am I brother's keeper ?
- Old Testament,Genesis,iv -
A brother is a friend given by nature.
- J.B.Legouv -
No distance breaks the tie of blood; Brrothers are brothers evermore. Father and mother Ask reverence;a brother only love.
- Tennyson,In Memoriam -
Ther is no brotherhood of man without fatherhood of God.
- H.M.Field -
The conviction of the justification of using even most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe.
- Adlof Hitler,Mein Kampf -
He built it better than he knew; The conscious stone to beaty grew.
- Emerson,The problem -
It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure,classic beaty that can be produced by a man,an animal,and piece of scarlet serge draped over a sick.
- Earnest Hemingway,Death in the Afternoon -
That which is everybody's business is nobody'sbusiness.
- Izaak Walton,The Complete Angler -
Business to-day consists in persuading crowds.
- Gerald Stanley Lee,Crowds -
The man who is above the business may one day find his business above him. The meanest,most contemptble kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualified with a "but". is that
- H.W.Beecher -
