"Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that,
but learn to love what you have."
– Anita Baker
"Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's
addressed to someone else."
– Ivern Ball
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really
have to love yourself to get anything done in the world."
– Lucille Ball
"The more you judge, the less you love."
– Honore de Balzac
"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
"It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen."
– Brigitte Bardot
"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the
government fears the people you have liberty."
– John Basil Barnhill, Barnhill-Tichenor Debate on Socialism. Saint Louis, Missouri: National Rip-Saw Publishing. p. 34
"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
"God gave us memory that we might have roses in December."
– James M. Barrie
"The best time to make friends is before you need them."
– Ethel Barrymore
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh — at yourself."
– Ethel Barrymore
"More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles,
bills, and proclamations."
– John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor
"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why."
– Bernard Baruch
"What's done to children, they will do to society."
– Orlando A. Battista
"Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what
you are going to be thinking tomorrow."
– Glen Beaman
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying,
I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note — torn
in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."
– Henry Ward Beecher
"To give and not to feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving."
– Max Beerbohm
"We must develop a fair appreciation for the real strengths
and limitations of government effort on behalf of children.
Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor
can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father
or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will."
– William J. Bennett
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
– Milton Berle
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
– Hector Berlioz
"It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning."
– Claude Bernhard
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting."
– Elizabeth Bibesco
"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
– Josh Billings
"Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does."
– Josh Billings
"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory."
– Josh Billings
"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
– Erma Bombeck
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I
would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used
everything you gave me.'"
– Erma Bombeck
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
– Napoleon Bonaparte
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
– Victor Borge
"Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake.
Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time,
they're really asking for a chunk of your life."
– Antoinette Bosco
"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway."
– Henry Boye
"Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything."
– Ray Bradbury
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."
– Harriet Braiker
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize
they were the big things."
– Robert Brault
"The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch
eraser — in case you thought optimism was dead."
– Robert Brault
"My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot."
– Ashleigh Brilliant
"Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own."
– Jacqueline Brisken
"Life just is. You have to flow with it. Give yourself to the moment. Let it happen."
– Jerry Brown
"He said true things, but called them by wrong names."
– Elizabeth Barret Browning
"The best things in life aren't things."
– Art Buchwald
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of
throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."
– Buddha
"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
– Carl W. Buechner
"An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult
way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way."
– Charles Bukowsky
"You can never plan the future by the past."
– Edmund Burke
"My mother always said, 'When you're eating pretzels, chew before you
swallow'. Always listen to your mother."
– George W. Bush (1/14/2002)
"Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."
– James F. Byrnes