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BABIES : Babies are such a nice way to start people. (Don Herold, U.S. humorist and cartoonist, 1899-1966)

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

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)

BANKING : Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. (Unknown Source)

BANKING : 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 : I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and 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. founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

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

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

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

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 : There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. (Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess, 1789-1849)

BEAUTY : What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. (Unknown Source)

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 : 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 AD)

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)

BEGINNINGS : Well begun is half done. (Horace, Roman lyric poet and satirist, 65 to 8 BCE)

BEHAVIOR : The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. (Gloria Steinem, U.S. feminist, journalist, and social and political activist, Born 1934)

BEHAVIOR : Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)

BEHAVIOR : Think for yourself and question authority. (Timothy Leary, U.S. psychologist and writer, 1920-1996)

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. advice columnist, 1918-2002)

BEHAVIOR : I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me. (Unknown source)

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

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

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 : Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. (Ben Okri, Nigerian poet and novelist, Born 1959)

BEHAVIOR : Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. (Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1875-1961)

BEHAVIOR : Strive not to be a success, but rather to be a value. (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)

BEHAVIOR : Angry gods should not act just like humans. (Dionysus, Greek mythical god who may have been worshipped as early as c.1500-1100 BCE)

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 : The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Jean Paul Richter, German Romantic writer, 1763-1825)

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 : The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. (John Locke, English philosopher, 1632-1704Banks: I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

BEHAVIOR : Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. (Norman Cousins, U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990)

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

BEHAVIOR : What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? (George Eliot [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], English novelist, 1819-1880)

BEHAVIOR : There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)

BEHAVIOR : Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

BEHAVIOR : Just when I changed all of life's answers, they changed all the questions. (Paul Simon, U.S. politician who served both in the House of Representatives and the Senate, 1928-2003)

BEHAVIOR : I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do â€” the day after. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

BEHAVIOR : Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

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

BEHAVIOR : There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. (Unknown Source)

BEHAVIOR : We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. (J. K. Rowling, British novelist who is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series., Born 1965)

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. advice columnist, 1918-2002)

BEHAVIOR : It is better to die on your feet, than live on your knees. (Emiliano Zapata, leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, 1879-1919)

BEHAVIOR : I cried because I had no shoes. Then I saw a man who had no feet. (Unknown Source)

BELIEFS : Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. (Francis Bacon, British essayist, philosopher, scientist, and statesman 1561-1626)

BELIEFS : No amount of belief makes something a fact. (James Randi, Canadian American magician and skeptic, Born 1928)

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

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)

BEQUEST : It's best to give while your hand is still warm. (Philip Roth, U.S. novelist, Born 1933)

BEREAVEMENT : I tend to think that those who leave us will live even stronger in our lives as the years go by. (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, Born 1963)

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)

BICYCLES : In the field of transportation, only the bicycle remains pure in heart. (Iris Murdoch, British novelist and philosopher, 1919-1999)

BIGOTRY : Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. (Herman Melville, U.S. novelist, short story writer, 1819-1891)

BIGOTRY : Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. (Unknown Source)

BIGOTRY : The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. (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)

BIGOTRY : Bigotry is the harvest of the persistent seeds of intolerance that is planted in ground --- ground that has been plowed by fear and watered by greed. (Paraphrased from Dan Morrow, U.S. author and professor of educational psychology)

BIGOTRY : The mind of a bigot is likened to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. (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)

BIGOTRY : Bigotry toward diverse forms of humanity (race, gender, ability, languagestems from the â€¨same root - an inability to recognize the notion of difference as a dynamic â€¨human force, one which is enriching, rather than threatening, when there are shared goals. (Caribbean-American writer and feminist, 1934-1992)

BIGOTRY : Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. (Rabindranath Tagore, a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)

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, best known as an interpreter of Eastern philosophy, 1915-1973)

BIRDS : A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer who authored Don Quixote, one of the most translated books in the world, 1547-1616)

BIRTHDAYS : It’s not the YEARS, it’s the MILEAGE! (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 : 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)

BLASPHEMIES : All great truths begin as blasphemies. (Irish playwright and Nobel laureate, 1856-1950)

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

BLASPHEMIES : All great truths begin as blasphemies. (Irish playwright and Nobel laureate, 1856-1950)

BLUNDERS : Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence are wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; commerce without morality; science without humanity; worship without sacrifice; and politics without principle. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

BOOK READING : What is reading a book but silent conversation? (Walter Savage Landor, English writer, poet, and activist, 1775-1864)

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 novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate, 1844-1924)

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

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

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

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 : There is no friend as loyal as a book. (Ernest Hemingway, U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist, 1899-1961)

BOOKS : Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. (Francis Bacon, British essayist, philosopher, scientist, and statesman 1561-1626)

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

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

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 : 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 : Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. (Francis Bacon, British essayist, philosopher, scientist, and statesman 1561-1626)

BOREDOM : A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)

BOREDOM : Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. (Charles Caleb Colton, English cleric and writer, 1780-1832)

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

BOREDOM : Any idiot can face a crisis; it's day to day living that wears you out. (Anton Chekhov, Russian short-story writer and dramatist, 1860-1904)

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

BOSSES : Call my bluff or take my guff. (Unknown source)

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

BRAVERY : Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer who authored Don Quixote, one of the most translated books in the world, 1547-1616)

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

BRAVERY : Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

BRAVERY : Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are endangered. (Jean Paul Richter, German Romantic writer, 1763-1825)

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 author, Born 1965Friendship: 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 author, Born 1965Profiling: When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. (Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian spiritual writer and speaker, 1895-1986)

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

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 : It is better to die on your feet, than live on your knees. (Emiliano Zapata, leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, 1879-1919)

BREVITY : Brevity is the soul of wit. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

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)

BROTHERS : A brother is a friend given by nature. (Gabriel Legouve, French writer, 1807-1903)

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

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 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 : 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 : If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. (Unknown source)

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

BUSINESS : A company is judged by the president it keeps. (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 : A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. (Paul Valery, French poet, essayist and philosopher, 1871-1945)

BUSINESS : The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)

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