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Credit ... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.
 B Marion Zimmer
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say.
And then say it with the utmost levity.
 Ba Dave
I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I
don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected
with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger,
the food cheaper, and old men Baber
R.E.
Everyone is in the best seat.
 Babson
Roger
I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people
are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen
carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence
terrifies people the most.
 Bacall
Lauren
Honesty's the best policy.
 Bach
J.S.
The Priest's grey nimbus in a niche where he dressed discreetly.
I will not sleep here tonight. Home also I cannot go.
A voice, sweetened and sustained, called to him from the sea.
Turning the curve he waved his hand. A sleek brown head, a seal's, Bach
Richard
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories,
his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the
worst, and so grow gently old all down the unchanging days and die one
day like any other day, only short Bacharach
Burt
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a
dirty little beast.
 Bacon
Francis
Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast
more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
If you are civil to the voluble, they will abuse your patience; if
brusque, your character.
 Bacon
Francis
I am looking for a honest man.
 Bacon
Francis
It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.
 Bacon
Francis
Mental power tended to corrupt, and absolute intelligence tended to
corrupt absolutely, until the victim eschewed violence entirely in
favor of smart solutions to stupid problems.
 Bacon
Francis
I'm not the person your mother warned you about... her imagination isn't
that good.
 Bacon
Francis
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
 Bacon
Francis
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to
examine the laws of heat.
 Bacon Francis
I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation.
 Bailey
P.J.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
 Baja Dan Jenkins
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
 Baker
Russell
The early bird who catches the worm works for someone who comes in late
and owns the worm farm.
 Baker
Russell
If Jesus Christ came to this town, people would say, great guy; terrible
carpenter.
 Baker
Russell
The way of the world is to praise dead saints and prosecute live ones.
 Baker
Russell
There appears to be irrefutable evidence that the mere fact of overcrowding
induces violence.
 Baldwin
James
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds,
and the pessimist knows it.
 Baldwin
Stanley
Piece of cake!
 Balfour
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen
in the image of Englishmen.
 Balfour
Arthur
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have
nothing whatever to do with it.
 Balliett
Whitney
Believe everything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.
 Ballou
Hosea
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
 Balzac
I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope
they do get 'em lowered down enough so people can afford to pay 'em.
 Balzac
Honor'e de
For a light heart lives long.
 Bandits
Time
If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some.
 Bankhead
Tallulah
I try to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brains fall out.
 Banks
Russell
"What was the worst thing you've ever done?"
"I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that
ever happened to me... the most dreadful thing."
 Banzai
Buckaroo
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen
at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
 Barber
Milt
Sometimes, at the end of the day, when I'm smiling and shaking their hands,
I want to kick them.
 Baretta
I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands,
one nation,
indivisible,
with liberty
and justice for all.
 Barf
Biff
There's no justice in this world.
 Barker
Clive
Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some
ordinance under which you can be booked.
 Barrie
J.M.
Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some men don't think
about sex at all... they become lawyers.
 Barris Chuck
Everyone wants results, but no one is willing to do what it takes to get them.
 Barry
Dave
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
 Barry
Dave
What is involved in such [close] relationships is a form of emotional
chemistry, so far unexplained by any school of psychiatry I am aware of, that
conditions nothing so simple as a choice between the poles of attraction and
repulsion. You can meet Barry
Dave
If what they've been doing hasn't solved the problem, tell them to
do something else.
 Barry
Dave
My rackets are run on strictly American lines, and they're going to
stay that way.
 Barry
Dave
While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are
safe, for you can watch both of his.
 Barry
Dave
And they mainly want to teach them not to question, not to imagine,
but to be obedient and behave well so that they can hold them forever as
children to their bosom as the second millennium lurches toward its
panicky close.
 Barry
Dave
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become
their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
 Barry
Dave
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his
reverence for all of life.
 Barry Dave
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive!
 Barry Dave
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do.
Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
 Barry Dave
Mum's the word.
 Barry Dave
There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly
divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.
 Barry Dave
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact,
barely presentable.
 Barry Dave
Robert Kennedy's 1964 Senatorial campaign planners told him that
their intention was to present him to the television viewers as a sincere,
generous person. "You going to use a double?" asked Kennedy.
Thumbing through a promotional pamphlet prep Barry Dave
A snake lurks in the grass.
 Barry Dave
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
 Barry Dave
The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared
for not by our labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in his
infinite wisdom has given control of property interests of the country, and
upon the successful manag Barry Dave
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
 Barry Dave
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a
sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate
in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this,
too, shall pass away."
 Barry Dave
There is perhaps in every thing of any consequence, secret history, which
it would be amusing to know, could we have it authentically communicated.
 Barry Dave
Most people deserve each other.
 Barry Dave
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
 Barry Dave
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
 Barry Dave
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
 Barry Dave
XLI:
The more one produces, the less one gets.
XLII:
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
XLIII:
Hardware works best when it matters the least.
XLIV:
Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a we Barry Dave
The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call
this their point of view.
 Barry Dave
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened
of the old ones.
 Barry Dave
When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,"
it's the money.
 Barry Dave
It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that
English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many
other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case.
 Barry Dave
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1. total 1. organizational 1. flexibility
2. systematized 2. monitored 2. capability
3. parallel 3. reciprocal 3. mobility
4. functional 4. digital 4. programming
5. re Barry Dave
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for
counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business. For the
experience of age, in things that fall within the compass of it, directeth
them; but in new things, a Barry Dave
The term "fire" brings up visions of violence and mayhem and the ugly scene
of shooting employees who make mistakes. We will now refer to this process
as "deleting" an employee (much as a file is deleted from a disk). The
employee is simply there o Barry Dave
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought,
a rivalry of aim.
 Barry Dave
For some reason a glaze passes over people's faces when you say
"Canada". Maybe we should invade South Dakota or something.
 Barry Dave
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
 Barry Dave
A non-vegetarian anti-abortionist is a contradiction in terms.
 Barry Dave
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional
manner ... sulking and nausea.
 Barry Dave
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
 Barry Dave
I am America's child, a spastic slogging on demented
limbs drooling I'll trade my PhD for a telephone voice.
 Barry Dave
San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.
 Barry Dave
If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets
and fire them all off, wouldn't you?
 Barry Dave
"We're not talking about the same thing," he said. "For you the world is
weird because if you're not bored with it you're at odds with it. For me
the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious,
unfathomable; my interest has been to  Barry Dave
"The Army is a place where you get up early in the morning to be yelled
at by people with short haircuts and tiny brains."
 Barry Dave
 Barry Dave
We're fantastically incredibly sorry for all these extremely unreasonable
things we did. I can only plead that my simple, barely-sentient friend
and myself are underprivileged, deprived and also college students.
 Barry Dave
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to
see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
 Barry Dave
Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and
children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt,
tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards
uniformity. What has been the effect of coercio Barry Dave
Sorry 'bout that sweat, honey. That's just holy water.
 Barry Dave
If I were a grave-digger or even a hangman, there are some people I could
work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
 Baruch
B.
All the waters of the earth are in the armpit of the Great Frog.
 Battie
Bill
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big
enough majority in any town?
 Baudelaire
Charles
You or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you.
I should have no hesitation in sacrificing my own life to spare yours, but
we take stock next week, and it would not be fair on the company.
 Beal
Louise
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
 Bear
Greg
"I don't know whether God exists or not, but it makes no difference to me."
"It's not like He's passing out free money or anything."
 Beard
Charles A.
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
 Beard
Peter
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough
to take it all away.
 Beaton
Cecil
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens
to you.
 Beatty
Paul
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
 Beauvoir
Simone de
Nobody shot me.
 Beck Bob
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
 Becke Samuel
Watch your mouth, kid, or you'll find yourself floating home.
 Beckett
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.
 Beckett
Samuel
The Israelis are the Doberman pinschers of the Middle East. They
treat the Arabs like postmen.
 Beckett
Samuel
We tried to close Ohio's borders and ran into a Constitutional problem.
There's a provision in the Constitution that says you can't close your
borders to interstate commerce, and garbage is a form of interstate commerce.
 Beckett
Samuel
All we know is the phenomenon: we spend our time sending messages to each
other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information.
This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with
our lives."
 Beckman Roman
I appreciate the fact that this draft was done in haste, but some of the
sentences that you are sending out in the world to do your work for you are
loitering in taverns or asleep beside the highway.
 Beeblebrox
Zaphod
I have had my television aerials removed. It's the moral equivalent
of a prostate operation.
 Beecher
Rev. Henry Ward
Many hands make light work.
 Beer
Stafford
All of us should treasure his Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a
Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks,
tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks:
"Just lie down on the floor and keep calm Behan
Brendan
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid,
stable business.
 Behan
Brendan
"Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what *___can*
you believe?!"
 Behan
Brendan
Please try to limit the amount of "this room doesn't have any bazingas"
until you are told that those rooms are "punched out." Once punched out,
we have a right to complain about atrocities, missing bazingas, and such.
 Behan
Brendan
Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as virtue.
 Belloc
Hilaire
I have nothing but utter contempt for the courts of this land.
 Bellow
Saul
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve
people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
 Ben Franklin
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
 Benares Camden
According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to live in
America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came in twenty-fifth.
Here in New York we really don't care too much. Because we know that we could
beat up their  Benares Camden
Authors (and perhaps columnists) eventually rise to the top of whatever
depths they were once able to plumb.
 Benchley
Robert
Under every stone lurks a politician.
 Benchley
Robert
Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
 Benchley
Robert
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying
as an income tax refund.
 Benchley
Robert
Several years ago, some smart businessmen had an idea: Why not build a big
store where a do-it-yourselfer could get everything he needed at reasonable
prices? Then they decided, nah, the hell with that, let's build a home
center. And before long ho Benjami
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
 Benjamin
A.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
 Bennett
Alan
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death.
Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behaviour.
 Bennett
Arnold
I use not only all the brains I have, but all those I can borrow as well.
 Bennett
D.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
 Bennett
James Gordon
Murray and Esther, a middle-aged Jewish couple, are touring Chile.
Murray just got a new camera and is constantly snapping pictures. One day,
without knowing it, he photographs a top-secret military installation. In
an instant, armed troops surroun Bennett
W.C.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
 Bennett
W.C.
The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important
point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly
important thing to people.
 Bergen
Candice
"Anyone can say 'no'. It is the first word a child learns and often the
first word he speaks. It is a cheap word because it requires no
explanation, and many men and women have acquired a reputation for
intelligence who know only this word and have u Berle
Milton
You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?
 Berlioz
Hector
Have you ever stopped to think what it would be like to have a woman President?
"I can't deal with the Russians today. Not now. I've got my period."
 Berman
Edgar
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of
24 hours.
 Bernanos Georges
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects
such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern
art.
 Berner
Jeff
To be or not to be.
 Berquier Edouard
After the ground war began, captured Iraqi soldiers said any of them caught
by superiors wearing a white T-shirt would be executed because of the ease
with which the shirts could be used as surrender flags. Some Iraqi soldiers
carried bleach with th Berra
Yogi
If one inquires why the American tradition is so strong against any connection
of State and Church, why it dreads even the rudiments of religious teaching
in state-maintained schools, the immediate and superficial answer is not
far to seek. ... The  Berra
Yogi
We should have a Vollyballocracy. We elect a six-pack of presidents.
Each one serves until they screw up, at which point they rotate.
 Berryman
John
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
 Biel
Gabriel
Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of
those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the
will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of
government, therefore, Bierce
Ambrose
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my
teacher was in my class for five years.
 Bierce
Ambrose
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
 Bierce
Ambrose
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
 Bierce
Ambrose
[Nuclear war] ... may not be desirable.
 Bierce
Ambrose
Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics,
because the stakes are so low.
 Bierce Ambrose
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
 Bierce Ambrose
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
 Bierce Ambrose
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
 Bierce Ambrose
One picture is worth more than ten thousand words.
 Bierce Ambrose
Likewise, the national appetizer, brine-cured herring with raw onions,
wins few friends, Germans excepted.
 Bilbo Baggins
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
 Bill Adler
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
 Bill Cain
"Jesus saves...but Gretzky gets the rebound!"
 Bill Cain
Well, I'm disenchanted too. We're all disenchanted.
 Billings
Josh
There are more dead people than living, and their numbers are increasing.
 Billings
Josh
Since we're all here, we must not be all there.
 Billings
Josh
The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
 Billings
Josh
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
 Billings
Josh
"You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive."
 Billings
Josh
A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.
 Billings
Josh
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the
difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
 Binder
Dr. L.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant
and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
 Binstead
Arthur
"The jig's up, Elman."
"Which jig?"
 Bion
I have gained this by philosophy:
that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
 Bion
When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
 Bion
When the President does it, that means it is not illegal.
 Bir Fred Nietzsche The
Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.
 Bismarck
Otto Von
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
 Bismarck
Otto Von
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
"Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
 Bismarck
Otto von
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then
asks you not to kill him.
 Bismarck
Otto von
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into
the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
 Bismarck
Otto von
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not
far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel
is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
 Bismark
Otto von
To generalize is to be an idiot.
 Blair
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
 Blake
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it,
and involve others in our doom.
 Blake
William
It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because
if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it could confuse a lot of people.
 Blake
William
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
 Blake
William
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder
aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
 Blake
William
Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant.
 Blake
William
"That boy's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver"
 Blaylock
James P.
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us
believe there are.
 Blaylock
James P.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
 Blaylock
James P.
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
 Blaylock James P.
Persistence in one opinion has never been considered a merit in political
leaders.
 Blish
James
And what accomplished villains these old engineers were! What diabolical
ways to sabotage they found! Nikolai Karlovich von Meck, of the People's
Comissariat of Railroads ... would hold forth for hours on end about the
economic problems involved in Blore
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
 Blore
I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.
 Bo Napoleon
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
 Bo Napoleon
In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of
assassination.
 Bob Cary Grant
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
 Bob Dylan
"Life would be much simpler and things would get done much faster if it
weren't for other people"
 Boffo
Mister
Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.
 Bogart
Humphrey
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not
spending money alone. It is spending t Bogart Humphrey
"Ubi non accusator, ibi non judex."
(Where there is no police, there is no speed limit.)
 Bohr
Niels
One good turn deserves another.
 Boleyn
Anne
If you have seen one city slum you have seen them all.
 Bombeck
Erma
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government
working for you.
 Bombeck
Erma
We have no scorched earth policy. We have a policy of scorched Communists.
 Bon John Dillinger on
May you live in uninteresting times.
 Bono
Ed De
"What's this? Trix? Aunt! Trix? You? You're after the prize! What
is it?" He picked up the box and studied the back. "A glow-in-the-dark
squid! Have you got it out of there yet?" He tilted the box, angling the
little colored balls of cereal Bonzai
Buckaroo
Men are superior to women.
 Boorstin
Daniel J.
One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is
the knowledge that one can communicate it.
 Boren
James H.
The first requisite for immortality is death.
 Borge
Victor
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed
down-stairs a step at a time.
 Bosky
Bernadette
I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when
they're being taped.
 Bosquet Pierre
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are
free from great ones.
 Bossert
W.
Thank God I've always avoided persecuting my enemies.
 Boswell
James
Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future
pleasure.
 Bowie
David
I'm not sure I've even got the brains to be President.
 Bowles
Colin
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be
surprised at how little you have.
 Bowles
Colin
If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
 Bradbury
Ray
If Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is not by some means abridged, it will soon
fall into disuse.
 Bradley
F.H.
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and
they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment
to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
 Bradley
General Omar N.
In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
 Bramah
Ernest
One is often kept in the right road by a rut.
 Brandeis
Justice Louis D.
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged
to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the
youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
 Brando
Marlon
"My country, right or wrong" is a thing that no patriot would think
of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying "My mother,
drunk or sober."
 Brando
Marlon
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening
with an insurance salesman?
 Brant
Sebastian
Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is liked getting kicked
out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
 Braun
Wernher von
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
 Brecher
K.
Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words
since I first called my brother's father dad.
 Brecheux
J.
A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
 Brecht
Bertold
Let's say your wedding ring falls into your toaster, and when you stick
your hand in to retrieve it, you suffer Pain and Suffering as well as
Mental Anguish. You would sue:
* The toaster manufacturer, for failure to include, in the instructions
 Brecht
Bertolt
There is no doubt that my lawyer is honest. For example, when he
filed his income tax return last year, he declared half of his salary
as 'unearned income.'
 Brecht
Bertolt
Liberals are the first to dump you if you con them or get into
trouble. Conservatives are better. They never run out on you.
 Brecht
Bertolt
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education
is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get
when you don't.
 Brecht
Bertolt
"... all the modern inconveniences ..."
 Brecht Bertolt
A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.
 Brecht Bertolt
No good deed goes unpunished.
 Brecht Bertolt
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
 Brenan
Gerald
Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years
organising and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
 Brescia
Albertano of
You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
 Brian Herbert
October 12, the Discovery.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss
it.
 Briggs
Austen
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height
but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble
than to be walked upon.
 Brilliant
Ashleigh
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
 Brilliant
Ashleigh
There's nothing worse for your business than extra Santa Clauses
smoking in the men's room.
 Brilliant
Ashleigh
Fear and loathing, my man, fear and loathing.
 Brilliant
Ashleigh
Don't get the idea that I'm one of those goddamn radicals. Don't get the
idea that I'm knocking the American system.
 Brilliant
Ashleigh
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
 Broder
David
We ... make the modern error of dignifying the Individual. We do everything
we can to butter him up. We give him a name, assure him that he has certain
inalienable rights, educate him, let him pass on his name to his brats and
when he dies we give  Brodsky
Joseph
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it
has not yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
 Brogan
Colm
Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy
to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.
 Brooks
Mel
"I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?"
 Brooks Atkinson
A full belly makes a dull brain.
 Brooks Mel
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right
to use the editorial "we".
 Brooks Mel
Washington [D.C.] is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
 Brothers
The Blues
Rome was not built in one day.
 Brothers
The Blues
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from
the vexation of thinking.
 Broughton Philip
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years.
This gives me great hope for the human race.
 Brow John Mason
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people
have been left out on the pleasure.
 Brow John Mason
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to
get themselves filed.
 Brown
Governor Jerry
Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available
briefcases.
 Brown Rita Mae
I consider the day misspent that I am not either charged with a crime,
or arrested for one.
 Browning Robert
O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
 Bruce
Lenny
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
 Bruce
Lenny
How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning,
and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?
 Bruce
Lenny
A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours.
 Bruce
Lenny
Walk softly and carry a big stick.
 Bruce
Lenny
Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
 Bruce
Lenny
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
 Bruce
Lenny
I am convinced that the truest act of courage is to sacrifice ourselves
for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man
is to suffer for others.
 Bruce
Lenny
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers and
cheating on your income tax.
 Bruce
Lenny
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce
love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
 Bruce
Lenny
So so is good, very good, very excellent good:
and yet it is not; it is but so so.
 Bruce
Lenny
You tread upon my patience.
 Brunner John
When the blind lead the blind they will both fall over the cliff.
 Bruyere
Jean de la
The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not
designed for people who walk on their hands.
 Bry Yul
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
 Bryson
Lyman
Any president should have the right to shoot at least two people a year
without explanation.
 Buckley
Lord
Nasrudin returned to his village from the imperial capital, and the villagers
gathered around to hear what had passed. "At this time," said Nasrudin, "I
only want to say that the King spoke to me." All the villagers but the
stupidest ran off to spr Buckley
William F.
The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the
societies in which they occur.
 Buckley
William F.
To know Edina is to reject it.
 Buddha
Gotama
How can you govern a nation which has 246 kinds of cheese?
 Bullwinkle
Rocky and
One man's Mede is another man's Persian.
 Bullwinkle J. Moose
Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
 Bulwer-Ly Grand Panjandrum
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it
were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
 Bulwer-Lytton
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born
to people you could not have possibly met.
 Bulwer-Lytton
I never killed a man that didn't deserve it.
 Bulwer-Lytton
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
 Bulwer-Lytton
Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in
dealing with disorders when they arise.
 Bumstead
Dagwood
Harp not on that string.
 Bungei Shunju
You cannot see the wood for the trees.
 Buren
Abigail Van
The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.
 Buren
Abigail Van
Anger is momentary madness.
 Burgess
Anthony
I BET WHAT HAPPENED was they discovered fire and invented the wheel on
the same day. Then that night, they burned the wheel.
 Burgess
Philip Larkin on Anthony
The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.
 Burke
James
If there is no wind, row.
 Burnham
Daniel Hudson
For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
 Burns
George
Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?
 Burns
George
The Least Successful Executions
History has furnished us with two executioners worthy of attention.
The first performed in Sydney in Australia. In 1803 three attempts were
made to hang a Mr. Joseph Samuels. On the first two of these the rope
snap Burroughs
William
What one fool can do, another can.
 Burroughs
William S.
The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.
 Burt Lanier Safford III
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't help
the rabbit.
 Burton
Robert
To say you got a vote of confidence would be to say you needed a vote of
confidence.
 Burton
Sir Richard
Oh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is.
 Burton
Sir Richard
Small things make base men proud.
 Business
Risky
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
 Butler
Dave
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
 Butler
Samuel
It's from Casablanca. I've been waiting all my life to use that line.
 Butler
Samuel
The plot was designed in a light vein that somehow became varicose.
 Butler
Samuel
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
 Butler
Samuel
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.
 Butler
Samuel
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
 Butler
Samuel
The optimum committee has no members.
 Butler Samuel
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market
award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal
gesture by the individual to himself.
 Bux
Bastian B.
You give me space to belong to myself yet without separating me
from your own life. May it all turn out to your happiness.
 Byrnes
James F.
"You would do well not to imagine profundity," he said. "Anything that seems
of momentous occasion should be dwelt upon as though it were of slight note.
Conversely, trivialities must be attended to with the greatest of care.
Because death is moment Bywater
T.
A man's house is his castle.
 beach.
from the
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner,
Vermont.
 better.
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 Berner
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