Authors by Name: B
Charles Babbage (3)
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
262 more wisdom & wit about knowledge
Irving Babbitt (5)
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
240 thoughts relating to faith
Roger Babson (3)
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
142 thoughts about failure
Johann Sebastian Bach (2)
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
402 thoughts about God
Gaston Bachelard (5)
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
218 quotes relating to beauty
Francis Bacon (67)
Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
249 more sayings regarding aging
Roger Bacon (2)
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
174 wisdom & wit regarding experience
John Bacon (2)
I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.
37 other quotes about pets
Robert Baden-Powell (3)
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
345 other sayings regarding happiness
Arthur Baer (2)
She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
19 more thoughts regarding diets
Walter Bagehot (7)
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
323 sayings about death
Enid Bagnold (2)
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
38 quotes regarding fatherhood
Liberty Hyde Bailey (6)
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
233 quotes regarding being alone
Abu Bakr (21)
Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
58 quotes about anger
Mikhail Bakunin (6)
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
364 other quotes about best
James Baldwin (3)
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
218 thoughts about beauty
James A. Baldwin (24)
People can cry much easier than they can change.
175 more views regarding change
Faith Baldwin (2)
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
41 other quotes regarding communication
Stanley Baldwin (4)
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
240 other wisdom & wit regarding faith
Arthur Balfour (3)
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
425 views about art
Lucille Ball (11)
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
249 quotes about aging
Hosea Ballou (8)
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
249 sayings about aging
Toni Cade Bambara (2)
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
142 more wisdom & wit about failure
George Bancroft (3)
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
402 sayings regarding God
Lester Bangs (2)
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
425 other wisdom & wit regarding art
Tallulah Bankhead (7)
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
32 thoughts about cars
Benjamin Banneker (3)
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
41 quotes regarding communication
Anna Letitia Barbauld (3)
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
233 more views about being alone
William Barclay (2)
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
423 quotes about greatness
Bob Barr (2)
It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
139 quotes regarding intelligence
Luis Barragan (5)
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
62 quotes relating to architecture
James M. Barrie (13)
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
364 more wisdom & wit regarding best
J. M. Barrie (2)
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
43 views about equality
Dave Barry (27)
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
425 views about art
John Barrymore (12)
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.
233 quotes regarding being alone
Karl Barth (6)
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
233 views relating to being alone
Roland Barthes (2)
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
262 more wisdom & wit about knowledge
Clara Barton (3)
Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.
198 wisdom & wit regarding business
Bernard Baruch (12)
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
249 quotes regarding aging
Frederic Bastiat (3)
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
184 other views regarding government
Charles Baudelaire (25)
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
425 wisdom & wit about art
Anne Baxter (3)
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
364 quotes about best
Pierre Beaumarchais (3)
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
278 other quotes about fear
Francis Beaumont (3)
Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
240 more views about faith
Samuel Beckett (4)
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
198 other views regarding business
Henry Ward Beecher (58)
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
425 views about art
Max Beerbohm (10)
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
425 thoughts regarding art
Brendan Behan (4)
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
323 more thoughts about death
Aphra Behn (5)
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
249 more sayings about aging
Alexander Graham Bell (3)
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
238 thoughts about success
Hilaire Belloc (6)
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
233 quotes regarding being alone
Eleanor Robson Belmont (2)
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
32 quotes relating to cars
David Ben-Gurion (2)
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
161 quotes regarding courage
Robert Benchley (10)
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
323 quotes regarding death
Julien Benda (2)
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
278 quotes relating to fear
Ruth Benedict (3)
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
156 thoughts about strength
Walter Benjamin (7)
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
425 thoughts about art
William Bennett (2)
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
62 quotes about architecture
Arnold Bennett (3)
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
175 other quotes regarding change
Jack Benny (4)
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
249 thoughts about aging
A. C. Benson (3)
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
249 quotes about aging
Jeremy Bentham (7)
The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
249 more quotes regarding aging
Bernard Berenson (2)
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
218 other thoughts about beauty
Jose Bergamin (5)
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.
43 quotes relating to forgiveness
Ingrid Bergman (5)
I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
233 quotes regarding being alone
Henri Bergson (3)
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
175 sayings about change
George Berkeley (3)
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
233 thoughts relating to being alone
Irving Berlin (2)
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
427 views about life
Hector Berlioz (3)
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
142 other thoughts relating to failure
Claude Bernard (7)
The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
240 thoughts about faith
William Bernbach (5)
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
425 sayings regarding art
Sarah Bernhardt (6)
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
58 thoughts about anger
Leonard Bernstein (5)
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
41 other sayings regarding communication
Annie Besant (2)
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
174 more quotes relating to experience
Mary McLeod Bethune (3)
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
240 sayings regarding faith
Aneurin Bevan (11)
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
198 more quotes about business
Vinoba Bhave (2)
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
24 other thoughts about fitness
Steven Biko (2)
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
44 views regarding attitudes
Josh Billings (42)
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
249 sayings regarding aging
Augustine Birrell (3)
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
179 other quotes regarding friendship
Jim Bishop (3)
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
249 views about aging
H. P. Blavatsky (2)
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
420 more quotes about nature
William J. H. Boetcker (4)
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
161 wisdom & wit about courage
Boethius (3)
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
233 other quotes about being alone
Niels Bohr (9)
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
364 quotes regarding best
Erma Bombeck (33)
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
24 other quotes regarding birthday
Edward Bond (3)
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
247 wisdom & wit about religion
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (7)
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
402 quotes about God
Sonny Bono (2)
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
41 more quotes about the law
Corrie Ten Boom (7)
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
278 other quotes regarding fear
Daniel Boone (3)
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
323 wisdom & wit about death
Victor Borge (2)
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
38 quotes about fatherhood
Hal Borland (3)
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
420 quotes about nature
Ludwig Borne (2)
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
425 views about truth
George Borrow (2)
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
46 more quotes regarding patriotism
Randolph Bourne (2)
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
174 sayings about experience
Elizabeth Bowen (10)
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
233 other quotes regarding being alone
Omar N. Bradley (5)
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
323 wisdom & wit about death
F. H. Bradley (2)
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
345 views regarding happiness
David Brainerd (4)
I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.
35 more quotes about design
Louis D. Brandeis (7)
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
174 quotes regarding experience
Georges Braque (2)
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
231 other views regarding poetry
Bertolt Brecht (14)
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
175 more wisdom & wit about change
Gerald Brenan (3)
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
180 thoughts regarding marriage
Joseph Brodsky (8)
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
44 more wisdom & wit about attitudes
Jacob Bronowski (6)
Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
233 thoughts about being alone
Anne Bronte (2)
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
420 views regarding nature
Rupert Brooke (3)
The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble and the rough male kiss of blankets.
15 thoughts about being cool
Gwendolyn Brooks (2)
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
425 more sayings about art
Van Wyck Brooks (2)
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
161 wisdom & wit regarding courage
Phillips Brooks (7)
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
423 other wisdom & wit regarding greatness
James Broughton (12)
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
249 quotes about aging
David R. Brower (2)
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
25 more quotes about environmental
John Mason Brown (2)
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
345 views about happiness
Thomas Browne (8)
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
233 other quotes about being alone
Robert Browning (22)
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
249 more sayings about aging
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (9)
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
364 other quotes about best
Anatole Broyard (2)
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
231 quotes about poetry
Lenny Bruce (5)
When you're eight years old nothing is your business.
198 other sayings about business
Giordano Bruno (2)
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
278 more quotes relating to fear
William Jennings Bryan (5)
If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
210 more quotes about education
William C. Bryant (5)
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
218 other quotes about beauty
Georg Buchner (6)
I'll know how to die with courage that is easier than living.
161 views about courage
Pearl S. Buck (18)
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
233 other views about being alone
Eustace Budgell (2)
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
179 sayings about friendship
Charles Bukowski (5)
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
233 other wisdom & wit relating to being alone
Thomas Bulfinch (2)
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
345 other quotes about happiness
Sitting Bull (2)
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
427 other wisdom & wit regarding life
John Bunyan (2)
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
161 quotes regarding courage
Luther Burbank (6)
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
25 quotes about environmental
Anthony Burgess (2)
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
233 more wisdom & wit regarding being alone
Edmund Burke (37)
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
249 other wisdom & wit about aging
Leo Burnett (2)
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
323 sayings about death
Daniel Burnham (2)
Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
62 other quotes about architecture
John Burroughs (17)
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
233 quotes about being alone
William S. Burroughs (9)
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
175 quotes relating to change
Robert Burton (4)
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
240 quotes regarding faith
Samuel Butler (68)
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
62 sayings about architecture
Nicholas M. Butler (4)
America is the best half-educated country in the world.
364 thoughts regarding best
Joseph Butler (2)
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
79 quotes regarding food
Smedley Butler (2)
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
131 views regarding home
Charlie Byrd (2)
A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
35 more quotes regarding design
Lord Byron (36)
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
233 sayings about being alone