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Quotes
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study."
Francis Bacon (1561-1620) Essays: Of Studies
"There's times when I just have to quit thinking . . . and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping."
Tammy Fay Baker
"I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist."
Tammy Fay Baker.
You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
Tammy Fay Baker.
"I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
Lucille Ball American actress-comedian (1911-1989)
"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."
Lucille Ball (1911-1989) US actress, producer
"Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish
line, I figured I was dead."
Roger Bannister (After becoming the first person to break the four minute mile, 1952)
"If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming."
Charles Barkley (1963-) US basketball player
"Excuse the mess but we live here."
Roseanne Barr (1952-) US actress, comedian
"You get a lot of tension? You get a lot of headaches? I do what it says on the aspirin bottle: Take two and keep away from children"
Rosanne Barr American comedian, entertainer
"It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else."
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937), British playwright, author of "Peter Pan"
"Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc., for granted, hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these things, which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in. Then along came the first Electrical Pioneer, Benjamin Franklin, who flew a kite in a lighting storm and received a serious electrical shock. This proved that lighting was powered by the same force as carpets, but it also damaged Franklin's brain so severely that he started speaking only in incomprehensible maxims, such as 'A penny saved is a penny earned.' Eventually he had to be given a job running the post office."
Dave Barry
"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very, very low crime rate."
Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."
Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959) US Actress. The "First Lady of the American Theatre"
"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think."
Bernard Baruch (financier; chairman of War Industries Board [WWI]; representative: UN Atomic Energy Commission; presidential adviser) said "Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction." Coined the phrase "Cold War"
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game."
Jacques Martin Barzun, French-born American author, American educator, historian, Dean of Graduate School, Columbia University
"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."
Jacques Martin Barzun,
"You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you."
Vicki Baum Austrian-USA novelist
"Let's Roll"
Todd Beamer 9-11-2001
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
-Charles Austin Beard "The Development of Modern Europe (1907)"
"Food is our common ground, a universal experience."
James Beard, American chef and author
"Whoever tells a lie cannot be pure in heart--and only the pure in heart can make good soup."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it"
Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
Robert Benchley
"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
Jack Benny (1894-1974)
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
"Who says we didn't have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high heels living together"
Milton Berle
"Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets."
Yogi Berra
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
Yogi Berra
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Yogi Berra
"A statistician is one who collects data and draws confusions."
Hyman Berston
PRESIDENCY, n.
The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) US journalist,
"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."
Ambrose Bierce
"We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it. ...That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago."
Rose Elizabeth Bird, former California Chief Justice
"I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges."
Harry A. Blackmun US supreme court justice
"If you were a member of Jesse James's band and people asked you what you were, you wouldn't say 'Well, I'm a desperado.' You'd say something like, 'I work in banks,' or 'I've done some railroad work.' It took me a long time just to say 'I'm a writer.' It's really embarrassing."
Roy Blount, Jr. (b. 1942) U.S. humorist, sportswriter, poet
"The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'"
Roy Blount, Jr.
"How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?... No one knows, it's never been tried."
Representative Roy Blunt (R - MO)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."
Bond, James Bond: in the film "Tomorrow Never Dies,"
"Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels."
Rabino Nilton Bonder
I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.
John Bernard Books (John Wayne), "The Shootist"
"All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife."
Daniel Boone
"Guidelines for Bureaucrats:
1. When in charge, ponder.
2. When in trouble, delegate.
3. When in doubt, mumble."
- James H. Boren
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
Victor Borge
"I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed, and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
James Boswell Scottish biographer
"Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
Rev. Denny Brake
"Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis."
Marlon Brando
"There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea."
Percy Williams Bridgeman American scientist (1882-1961)
"The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."
David Brinkley
"Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office."
David Broder
"I just wake up and say, 'You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.'"
Garth Brooks
"To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge."
Phillips Brooks
"Whenever people say we mustn't be sentimental, you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And, if they add, we must be realistic, they mean they are going to make money out of it."
Brigid Brophy (1929- ) English-Irish writer, novelist, playwright
"Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price. "
Harry Browne, American Financial Advisor
"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all."
Rita Mae Brown, American writer and author
"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself."
Sir Thomas Browne, English physician, writer
"Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved."
William Jennings Bryant
"We are the people our parents warned us about."
Jimmy Buffett
"There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning."
Jimmy Buffett, "Fruitcakes"
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul."
Luther Burbank, American naturalist and plant breeder
"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair."
George Burns (1896-1996) American actor, author, comedian, vaudevillian
"When a woman does me the honor to name me the father of her child, I shall always be too gallant to decline the honor."
Aaron Burr (1756-1836) Many women claimed to be pregnant after passionate encounters with Burr
"I've got gay supporters. I don't ask their sexual orientation though."
George W. Bush
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
George W. Bush
"A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness."
George W. Bush. (He meant to say "antidotes.")
"We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile."
- George W. Bush
"Life is one long process of getting tired."
Samuel Butler British author (1835-1902)
"Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits."
Samuel Butler British author (1835-1902) translator: Homers "Odyssey" and "Iliad"
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Robert Burton (1577-1640) - English clergyman
"Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts."
George Buttrick
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
Robert Byrne
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