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The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
Effort
Buddha

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.
Genius
Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

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Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Fate
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
Enthusiasm
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
Eccentricity
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
Fate
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
Sorrow
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
Government
Basil Bunting

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Heredity is nothing, but stored environment.
Ancestry
Luther Burbank

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It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
Faces
Julie Burchill

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All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
Catholicism
Anthony Burgess

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
Money
Anthony Burgess

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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
Rebellion
Edmund Burke

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In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
Repression
Edmund Burke

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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Doubt
Edmund Burke

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The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
Liberty
Edmund Burke

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Life's but a day at most.
Life and Living
George Burns

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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
Age and Aging
George Burns

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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
Life and Living
John Burroughs

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You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
Parents and Parenting
Barbara Bush

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.
Politicians and Politics
George Bush

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.
Work
Eric Butterworth

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Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.
Job
Eric Butterworth

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Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
Fortune
Eric Butterworth

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Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Critics and Criticism
Charles Buxton

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun