[ -and Quotes ]
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The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
[ Relationships ]
Joan Baez
22 votes
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Walter Bagehot
17 votes
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
[ Weddings ]
Walter Bagehot
13 votes
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
[ Observation ]
Walter Bagehot
13 votes
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
[ Writers and Writing ]
Walter Bagehot
21 votes
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
[ Theater ]
Enid Bagnold
16 votes
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
[ Fraud ]
Pearl Bailey
22 votes
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
[ America ]
Philip James Bailey
32 votes
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
[ Simplicity ]
Philip James Bailey
27 votes
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
[ Family ]
Anita Baker
19 votes
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
[ Beginning ]
Ivy Baker
28 votes
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
[ Learning ]
Newton D. Baker
20 votes
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
[ Goals ]
Russell (Wayne) Baker
12 votes
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
[ Education ]
James Baldwin
17 votes
Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.
[ Experience ]
James Baldwin
8 votes
The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
[ Teams and Teamwork ]
James Baldwin
22 votes
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
[ Quotations ]
James Baldwin
26 votes
Ask with urgency and passion.
[ Ask ]
Arthur James Balfour
6 votes
He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment.
[ Exaggeration ]
Ivern Ball
25 votes
The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
[ Age and Aging ]
Lucille Ball
29 votes
Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them.
[ Fashion ]
Bettina Ballard
29 votes
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
[ Brevity ]
Hosea Ballou
10 votes
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
[ Exaggeration ]
Hosea Ballou
15 votes
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
[ Theory ]
Hosea Ballou
32 votes
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
[ Painters and Painting ]
Honore De Balzac
13 votes
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
[ Action ]
Honore De Balzac
27 votes
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
[ Passion ]
Honore De Balzac
28 votes
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
[ Exaggeration ]
Honore De Balzac
28 votes
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
[ Slander ]
George Bancroft
20 votes
Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.
[ Chaos ]
John Hendrick Bangs
4 votes
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
[ Memory ]
Maurice Baring
27 votes
The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
[ Alcohol and Alcoholism ]
Alben W. Barkley
23 votes
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
[ Basketball ]
Charles Barkley
14 votes
There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.
[ Truth ]
Leonard Barnes
24 votes
Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
[ Perspective ]
Lord Barnett
7 votes