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3180 quotesWe are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Francis Bacon
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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Marriage
Francis Bacon
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Present
Francis Bacon
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
Men and Women
Walter Bagehot
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Writers and Writing
Walter Bagehot
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You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
Family
Anita Baker
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Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.
Desire
James Baldwin
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It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
Persecution
James Baldwin
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Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them.
Fashion
Bettina Ballard
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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Brevity
Hosea Ballou
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Tears
Hosea Ballou
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Theory
Hosea Ballou
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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
Government
Joy Baluch
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Manners
Honore De Balzac
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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Action
Honore De Balzac
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Exaggeration
Honore De Balzac
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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
Belief
Joel A. Barker
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Novels are longer than life.
Fiction
Natalie Clifford Barney
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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
Belief
P.T. Barnum
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
Prayer
Amelia E. Barr
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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Books - Reading
E.S. Barrett
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The most useless are those who never change through the years.
Change
Sir James M. Barrie
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Sir James M. Barrie
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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.
Failure
Sir James M. Barrie
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I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
Audiences
Ethel Barrymore
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun