-- Francis Bacon
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies
themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by
experience.
--Tallulah Bankhead
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
I'll come up and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
-- P.T. Barnum
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season
and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour
that which can be done just as well as now.
-- James M. Barrie
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
-- Dave Barry
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of
training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the
history of the world.
--Candace Bastanchury
Get everything you need, and then give it up for what you want. Then you can
say you have had a fulfilling life.
-- John Beecher
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
-- Alexander Graham Bell
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully
upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
-- Betty Bender
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to
death.
-- Robert F. Bennett
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and
unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all
aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of
yourself.
-- Warren G. Bennis
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic
factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic
qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather
than born.
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
-- Henri Bergson
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
-- Irving Berlin
Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it.
-- Hector Berlioz
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
--Yogi Berra
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
You can observe a lot by just watching.
We made too many wrong mistakes.
If you come to a fork in the road, take it
We have deep depth.
-- Josh Billings
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
-- Billy Bishop
On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength.
-- Otto von Bismarck
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the
slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
-- Paxton Blair
There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen's rights and
inadequate stress put upon his duties and responsibilities.
-- Kenneth Blanchard
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
-- Block's Murphy's Law
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
-- Niels Bohr
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow
field.
There are two kinds of truths: small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small
truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another great
truth.
-- Alan Boinus
If it's free, don't buy it.
One day, each of us will have his own area code.
-- Derek Bok
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
-- Edward de Bono
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to
have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas
at all.
-- Elias Boudinot
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a
people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.
-- Ray Bradbury
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
-- General Omar Bradley
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop
our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the
target.
Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
-- Phillips Brooks
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to
your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers
Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less
pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.
-- Dorothea Broude
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
-- Henry Brougham
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but
impossible to enslave.
-- Charles Brower
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to
death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The next time you face a customer who has every right to be upset, say something
like this: 'I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were you, I'd feel exactly the
same way. What would you like for me to do?' These are magical, healing words, and you'll
be surprised at how reasonable people become when they believe you are on their side.
If you are angry, why not try this. Write a letter. Pour out all of your feelings,
describe your anger and disappointment. Don't hold anything back. Then put the letter in a
drawer. After two days, take it out and read it. Do you still want to send it? I've found
that anger and pie crusts soften after two days.
When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication
of what you're made of.
When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to
say it.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
You either make dust or eat dust.
-- Les Brown
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
-- A. Whitney Brown
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate
plants.
-- William Jennings Bryant
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of
successful experiences behind you.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be
waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
-- Paul Bear Bryant
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything
goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games
for you.
-- Pearl S. Buck
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the
impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
-- William F. Buckley Jr.
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the
wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at
the voting booth.
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and
extremists this side of the giggle house.
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
-- Ferris Bueller
Life moves pretty fast, If you don't take a look
around once and awhile, you could miss it.
-- Jimmy Buffett
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
-- Christopher P. Buonanno
Life is as a jelly roll. When you think you have it eaten, it comes out the other
end.
-- Edmund Burke
Good order is the foundation of all things.
-- Dr. David M. Burns
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then
you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember
that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself
the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive
person.
-- George Burns
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs
and cutting hair.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
-- Charles Buxton
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
-- Lord Byron
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who
dare not, are slaves.
