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Best Famous Quotes by: George Bergman, Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Bergman, Henri Bergson, Juliene Berk, Rusty Berkus, Milton Berle, Irving Berlin, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Hector Berlioz, Louis A. Berman, Bernadette, Georges Bernanos, Claude Bernard, Dorothy Bernard, Saint Bernard, Eric Berne, Sarah Bernhardt, Al Bernstein, Ignas Bernstein, Jeremy Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein, Dale Berra, Lawrence Peter Berra, Yogi Berra, John Berry, Wendell Berry, Mary Bertone, Anne Besant, and Annie Besant

Best George Bergman Quotes: The most famous quotes by George Bergman

There is no time like the pleasant. — George Bergman

Best Ingmar Bergman Quotes: The most famous quotes by Ingmar Bergman

I hope I never get so old I get religious. — Ingmar Bergman

Best Ingrid Bergman Quotes: The most famous quotes by Ingrid Bergman

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. — Ingrid Bergman

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. — Ingrid Bergman

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. — Ingrid Bergman

Best Henri Bergson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Henri Bergson

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. — Henri Bergson

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. — Henri Bergson

Best Juliene Berk Quotes: The most famous quotes by Juliene Berk

Habits…the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction…You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way – by finding that it is a means of satisfaction. — Juliene Berk

Best Rusty Berkus Quotes: The most famous quotes by Rusty Berkus

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential. — Rusty Berkus

Best Milton Berle Quotes: The most famous quotes by Milton Berle

I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are. — Milton Berle

Laughter is an instant vacation — Milton Berle

Best Irving Berlin Quotes: The most famous quotes by Irving Berlin

The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You’ve got to keep on working that talent. Someday I’ll reach for it and it won’t be there. — Irving Berlin

There’s no business like show business. — Irving Berlin

Best Sir Isaiah Berlin Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sir Isaiah Berlin

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not. — Sir Isaiah Berlin

Best Hector Berlioz Quotes: The most famous quotes by Hector Berlioz

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. — Hector Berlioz

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. — Hector Berlioz

Best Louis A. Berman Quotes: The most famous quotes by Louis A. Berman

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. — Louis A. Berman

Best Bernadette Quotes: The most famous quotes by Bernadette

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. — Bernadette

Best Georges Bernanos Quotes: The most famous quotes by Georges Bernanos

Hell, Madame, is to love no longer. — Georges Bernanos

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. — Georges Bernanos

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. — Georges Bernanos

Best Claude Bernard Quotes: The most famous quotes by Claude Bernard

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown. — Claude Bernard

Best Dorothy Bernard Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dorothy Bernard

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. — Dorothy Bernard

Best Saint Bernard Quotes: The most famous quotes by Saint Bernard

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. — Saint Bernard

Best Eric Berne Quotes: The most famous quotes by Eric Berne

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. — Eric Berne

Best Sarah Bernhardt Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sarah Bernhardt

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. — Sarah Bernhardt

All power in human hands is liable to be abused. — Sarah Bernhardt

Best Al Bernstein Quotes: The most famous quotes by Al Bernstein

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done. — Al Bernstein

Best Ignas Bernstein Quotes: The most famous quotes by Ignas Bernstein

Three things you can be judged by your voice, your face, and your disposition. — Ignas Bernstein

Best Jeremy Bernstein Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jeremy Bernstein

Never speak more clearly than you think. — Jeremy Bernstein

Best Leonard Bernstein Quotes: The most famous quotes by Leonard Bernstein

I’m not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. — Leonard Bernstein

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. — Leonard Bernstein

Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. — Leonard Bernstein

It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else. — Leonard Bernstein

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. — Leonard Bernstein

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long. — Leonard Bernstein

Best Dale Berra Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dale Berra

You can’t compare me to my father. Our similarities are different. — Dale Berra

Best Lawrence Peter Berra Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lawrence Peter Berra

In baseball, you don’t know nothing. — Lawrence Peter Berra

The game’s not over until it’s over. — Lawrence Peter Berra

You can observe a lot just by watching. — Lawrence Peter Berra

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience. — Lawrence Peter Berra

A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. — Lawrence Peter Berra

You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours. — Lawrence Peter Berra

It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility. — Lawrence Peter Berra

80 percent of the balls that don’t reach the hole, don’t go in. — Lawrence Peter Berra

If people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop ’em — Lawrence Peter Berra

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical. — Lawrence Peter Berra

I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself — Lawrence Peter Berra

Nobody goes there anymore because it’s too crowded. — Lawrence Peter Berra

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase. — Lawrence Peter Berra

I never said most of the things I said. — Lawrence Peter Berra

I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. — Lawrence Peter Berra

It’s like deja vu all over again. — Lawrence Peter Berra

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken. — Lawrence Peter Berra

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house. — Lawrence Peter Berra

So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face. — Lawrence Peter Berra

How can a guy hit and think at the same time — Lawrence Peter Berra

It gets late early out there. — Lawrence Peter Berra

When you come to a fork in the road, take it. — Lawrence Peter Berra

He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious. — Lawrence Peter Berra

We made too many wrong mistakes. — Lawrence Peter Berra

I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary. — Lawrence Peter Berra

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. — Lawrence Peter Berra

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there. — Lawrence Peter Berra

Ninety-nine percent of this game is half mental. — Lawrence Peter Berra

Best Yogi Berra Quotes: The most famous quotes by Yogi Berra

Slump I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting. — Yogi Berra

It’s deja vu all over again — Yogi Berra

Half this game is 90 mental. — Yogi Berra

It ain’t over ’till it’s over. — Yogi Berra

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. — Yogi Berra

The future ain’t what it used to be. — Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot just by watching. — Yogi Berra

This is like deja vu all over again. — Yogi Berra

I didn’t really say everything I said. — Yogi Berra

When you come to a fork in the road, take it. — Yogi Berra

If the fans don’t wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop ’em. — Yogi Berra

Baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical. — Yogi Berra

No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded. — Yogi Berra

Best John Berry Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Berry

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. — John Berry

Best Wendell Berry Quotes: The most famous quotes by Wendell Berry

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. — Wendell Berry

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world. — Wendell Berry

Best Mary Bertone Quotes: The most famous quotes by Mary Bertone

Get thee glass eyes And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not. — Mary Bertone

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts. — Mary Bertone

Past and to come seem best things present worst. — Mary Bertone

Talkers are no good doers. — Mary Bertone

The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. — Mary Bertone

But screw up your courage to the sticking place, And we’ll not fail. — Mary Bertone

I wasn’t put on this Earth to make you feel like a man. — Mary Bertone

Best Anne Besant Quotes: The most famous quotes by Anne Besant

Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment. — Anne Besant

Best Annie Besant Quotes: The most famous quotes by Annie Besant

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle. — Annie Besant

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Best Famous Quotes by: Dr. David M. Burns, George Burns, Robert Burns, Aaron Burr, Amelia Burr, Adam Burrell, Elihu Burritt, John Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, William Seward Burroughs, Barbara Burrow, Dan Burrus, Nat Burton, Robert Burton, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Leo Buscaglia, Barbara Bush, George Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, George W. Bush, George Walker Bush, Laura Bush, Vannevar Bush, Horace Bushnell, Dick Butkus, Brett Butler, Montagu Butler, Nicholas Butler, Nicholas Murray Butler, and R. A. Butler

Best Dr. David M. Burns Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dr. David M. Burns

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person. — Dr. David M. Burns

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault. — Dr. David M. Burns

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. — Dr. David M. Burns

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. — Dr. David M. Burns

Best George Burns Quotes: The most famous quotes by George Burns

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. — George Burns

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. — George Burns

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. — George Burns

I get a standing ovation jaust standing. — George Burns

I’m going to stay in show business until I’m the last one left. — George Burns

Nice to be here At my age it’s nice to be anywhere. — George Burns

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. — George Burns

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age. — George Burns

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. — George Burns

I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. — George Burns

Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can’t wait to finish your breakfast. You can’t wait to do your exercises. You can’t wait to put on your clothes. You can’t wait to get out — and you can’t wait to come home, because the soup is hot. — George Burns

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. — George Burns

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. — George Burns

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. — George Burns

Age to me means nothing. I can’t get old I’m working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you’re working, you stay young. When I’m in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. — George Burns

Best Robert Burns Quotes: The most famous quotes by Robert Burns

Ae fond kiss, and then we severA farewell, and then foreverDeep in heart-wrung tears I’ll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I’ll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves himMe, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. — Robert Burns

The best-laid schemes o’ mice an ‘menGang aft agley. — Robert Burns

The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creatureBut still the preaching cant forbear,And ev’n the rigid featureYet ne’er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh’s a poor exchangeFor deity offended. — Robert Burns

Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change. — Robert Burns

The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy — Robert Burns

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission. — Robert Burns

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. — Robert Burns

Best Aaron Burr Quotes: The most famous quotes by Aaron Burr

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done. — Aaron Burr

Best Amelia Burr Quotes: The most famous quotes by Amelia Burr

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. — Amelia Burr

Best Adam Burrell Quotes: The most famous quotes by Adam Burrell

Don’t miss out on life just to stay alive. — Adam Burrell

Best Elihu Burritt Quotes: The most famous quotes by Elihu Burritt

Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. — Elihu Burritt

Best John Burroughs Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Burroughs

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. — John Burroughs

A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. — John Burroughs

The secret of happiness is something to do. — John Burroughs

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it. — John Burroughs

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. — John Burroughs

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. — John Burroughs

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. — John Burroughs

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds — how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives — and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song — John Burroughs

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. — John Burroughs

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. — John Burroughs

Best William S. Burroughs Quotes: The most famous quotes by William S. Burroughs

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on. — William S. Burroughs

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager. — William S. Burroughs

Best William Seward Burroughs Quotes: The most famous quotes by William Seward Burroughs

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client. — William Seward Burroughs

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don’t buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. — William Seward Burroughs

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. — William Seward Burroughs

In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom…Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S. — William Seward Burroughs

Best Barbara Burrow Quotes: The most famous quotes by Barbara Burrow

A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself. — Barbara Burrow

Best Dan Burrus Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dan Burrus

I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday’s eyes. — Dan Burrus

Best Nat Burton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Nat Burton

There’ll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see. — Nat Burton

Best Robert Burton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Robert Burton

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. — Robert Burton

Penny wise, pound foolish. — Robert Burton

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. — Robert Burton

A good conscience is a continual feast. — Robert Burton

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. — Robert Burton

Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword. — Robert Burton

Best Sir Richard Francis Burton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sir Richard Francis Burton

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. — Sir Richard Francis Burton

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind. — Sir Richard Francis Burton

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. — Sir Richard Francis Burton

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave for it is almost as well to be subjected to another’s appetite as to thine own. — Sir Richard Francis Burton

Best Leo Buscaglia Quotes: The most famous quotes by Leo Buscaglia

Perfect love is rare indeed – for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. — Leo Buscaglia

Best Barbara Bush Quotes: The most famous quotes by Barbara Bush

One thing I can say about George…he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring. — Barbara Bush

You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities. — Barbara Bush

Believe in something larger than yourself. — Barbara Bush

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream. — Barbara Bush

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that. — Barbara Bush

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president’ s spouse. I wish him well — Barbara Bush

War is not nice. — Barbara Bush

Best George Bush Quotes: The most famous quotes by George Bush

Don’t confuse being ‘soft’ with seeing the other guy’s point of view. — George Bush

I have opinions of my own — strong opinions — but I don’t always agree with them. — George Bush

Best George Herbert Walker Bush Quotes: The most famous quotes by George Herbert Walker Bush

I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity – in important things, diversity – in all things, generosity. — George Herbert Walker Bush

My grandkids say, ‘Reality Bites.’ O.K., but it also challenges and rewards…I believe our best days are yet to come. — George Herbert Walker Bush

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There’s nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional. — George Herbert Walker Bush

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. — George Herbert Walker Bush

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right. — George Herbert Walker Bush

The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship. — George Herbert Walker Bush

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push and I’ll say no, and they’ll push again. And all I can say to them is read my lips No New Taxes. — George Herbert Walker Bush

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. — George Herbert Walker Bush

Best George W. Bush Quotes: The most famous quotes by George W. Bush

Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America’s gift to the world it is God’s gift to humanity. — George W. Bush

You know what’s interesting about Washington It’s the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature. — George W. Bush

We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. — George W. Bush

Best George Walker Bush Quotes: The most famous quotes by George Walker Bush

Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — George Walker Bush

The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — George Walker Bush

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — George Walker Bush

Best Laura Bush Quotes: The most famous quotes by Laura Bush

You till be glad to know the President is practicing safe snacks. in reference to her husband’s fainting spell caused by a pretzel — Laura Bush

Best Vannevar Bush Quotes: The most famous quotes by Vannevar Bush

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. — Vannevar Bush

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. — Vannevar Bush

Best Horace Bushnell Quotes: The most famous quotes by Horace Bushnell

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable. — Horace Bushnell

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin. — Horace Bushnell

Best Dick Butkus Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dick Butkus

I wouldn’t ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important like a league game or something. — Dick Butkus

Best Brett Butler Quotes: The most famous quotes by Brett Butler

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don’t. — Brett Butler

Best Montagu Butler Quotes: The most famous quotes by Montagu Butler

Would you, my dear young friends, like to be inside with the five wise virgins, or outside, alone and in the dark with the five foolish ones. — Montagu Butler

Best Nicholas Butler Quotes: The most famous quotes by Nicholas Butler

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. — Nicholas Butler

Best Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes: The most famous quotes by Nicholas Murray Butler

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail. — Nicholas Murray Butler

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. — Nicholas Murray Butler

Best R. A. Butler Quotes: The most famous quotes by R. A. Butler

Politics is the art of the possible. — R. A. Butler

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Best Samuel Butler Quotes: The most famous quotes by Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same,Whether it win or lose the gameTrue as a dial to the sun,Although it be not shined upon. — Samuel Butler

Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. — Samuel Butler

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. — Samuel Butler

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. — Samuel Butler

For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. — Samuel Butler

Life is not an exact science, it is an art. — Samuel Butler

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. — Samuel Butler

God is Love — I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is — Samuel Butler

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. — Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, but historians can. — Samuel Butler

What makes all doctrines plain and clear- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov’d true before Prove false again Two hundred more. — Samuel Butler

The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places. — Samuel Butler

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy. — Samuel Butler

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious. — Samuel Butler

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. — Samuel Butler

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. — Samuel Butler

A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg. — Samuel Butler

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies. — Samuel Butler

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. — Samuel Butler

He that is down can fall no lower. — Samuel Butler

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. — Samuel Butler

Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth. — Samuel Butler

The course of true anything does not run smooth. — Samuel Butler

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. — Samuel Butler

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. — Samuel Butler

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule. — Samuel Butler

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. — Samuel Butler

An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books. — Samuel Butler

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. — Samuel Butler

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. — Samuel Butler

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. — Samuel Butler

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. — Samuel Butler

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. — Samuel Butler

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. — Samuel Butler

Best Herbert Butterfield Quotes: The most famous quotes by Herbert Butterfield

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness — each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked — each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. — Herbert Butterfield

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance … produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward … allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process. — Herbert Butterfield

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route. — Herbert Butterfield

Best Eric Butterworth Quotes: The most famous quotes by Eric Butterworth

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. — Eric Butterworth

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind. — Eric Butterworth

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things. — Eric Butterworth

Dont go through life, GROW through life. — Eric Butterworth

Best Red Buttons Quotes: The most famous quotes by Red Buttons

He’s a real loser. He moved into a new neighborhood and got run over by the Welcome Wagon. — Red Buttons

Best Charles Buxton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them. — Charles Buxton

Best Charles Roberts Buxton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Charles Roberts Buxton

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. — Charles Roberts Buxton

In life, as in chess, forethought wins. — Charles Roberts Buxton

Best Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy – invincible determination–a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. — Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton

Best Don Byas Quotes: The most famous quotes by Don Byas

You call it madness, but I call it love. — Don Byas

Best Richard Evelyn Byrd Quotes: The most famous quotes by Richard Evelyn Byrd

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. — Richard Evelyn Byrd

Best Robert C. Byrd Quotes: The most famous quotes by Robert C. Byrd

One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family. — Robert C. Byrd

Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone…I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill — Robert C. Byrd

Best Robert Byrne Quotes: The most famous quotes by Robert Byrne

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. — Robert Byrne

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. — Robert Byrne

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. — Robert Byrne

Partying is such sweet sorrow. — Robert Byrne

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo. — Robert Byrne

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. — Robert Byrne

Until you walk a mile in another man’s moccasins you can’t imagine the smell. — Robert Byrne

Getting caught is the mother of invention. — Robert Byrne

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. — Robert Byrne

Best James F. Byrnes Quotes: The most famous quotes by James F. Byrnes

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. — James F. Byrnes

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers. — James F. Byrnes

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. — James F. Byrnes

Best George Gordon Byron Quotes: The most famous quotes by George Gordon Byron

To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. — George Gordon Byron

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass’dAnd the eyes of the sleepers wax’d deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still — George Gordon Byron

Adversity is the first path to truth. — George Gordon Byron

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. — George Gordon Byron

They never fail who die in a great cause. — George Gordon Byron

‘Tis pleasant, sure, to see one’s name in print. A book’s a book, although there’s nothing in ‘t. — George Gordon Byron

For what were all these country patriots born To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn — George Gordon Byron

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that ‘Carpe Diem’ is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow — George Gordon Byron

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. — George Gordon Byron

There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. — George Gordon Byron

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. — George Gordon Byron

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure. — George Gordon Byron

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more. — George Gordon Byron

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five — George Gordon Byron

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description. — George Gordon Byron

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly — George Gordon Byron

Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. — George Gordon Byron

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. — George Gordon Byron

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. — George Gordon Byron

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, – and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, – thou livest forever — George Gordon Byron

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire. — George Gordon Byron

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. — George Gordon Byron

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem-and in my esteem age is not estimable. — George Gordon Byron

Cervantes smiled Spain’s chivalry away A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. — George Gordon Byron

Best Lord Byron Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lord Byron

Oh too convincing – dangerously dear – In woman’s eye the unanswerable tear — Lord Byron

Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. — Lord Byron

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. — Lord Byron

For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest. — Lord Byron

How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this. — Lord Byron

Best James Branch Cabell Quotes: The most famous quotes by James Branch Cabell

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. — James Branch Cabell

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true. — James Branch Cabell

Best Meg Cabot Quotes: The most famous quotes by Meg Cabot

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It’s true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt. — Meg Cabot

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one’s back. — Meg Cabot

Best Eileen Caddy Quotes: The most famous quotes by Eileen Caddy

Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. — Eileen Caddy

Best CaddyShack Quotes: The most famous quotes by CaddyShack

Carl Spackler IT’S IN THE HOLE. — CaddyShack

Spalding Smails This is good stuff. I got it from a Negro. You’re probably high already and you don’t even know it. — CaddyShack

Sandy Carl I want you to kill all the gophers on the golf course Carl Spackler Correct me if I’m wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they’ll lock me up and throw away the key. Sandy Not golfers, you great fool. Gophers. THE LITTLE BROWN, FURRY RODENTS. Carl Spackler We can do that. We don’t even need a reason. — CaddyShack

Al Czervik Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it. — CaddyShack

Danny Noonan I haven’t even told my father I’m not gonna get that scholarship. I’m gonna end up working in a lumberyard the rest of my life. Ty Webb What’s wrong with lumber I own two lumberyards. Danny Noonan I notice you don’t spend too much time there. Ty Webb I’m not quite sure where they are. — CaddyShack

Al Czervik Hey everybody, we’re all gonna get laid. — CaddyShack

Judge Smails It’s easy to grin When your ship comes in And you’ve got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile, Is the man who can smile, When his shorts are too tight in the seat. — CaddyShack

Best Herb Caen Quotes: The most famous quotes by Herb Caen

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. — Herb Caen

There are more of them than us. — Herb Caen

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. — Herb Caen

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. — Herb Caen

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. — Herb Caen

Best Gaius Julius Caesar Quotes: The most famous quotes by Gaius Julius Caesar

Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres. (All Gaul is divided into three parts) — Gaius Julius Caesar

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. — Gaius Julius Caesar

Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.) — Gaius Julius Caesar

Men willingly believe what they wish. — Gaius Julius Caesar

The die is cast. — Gaius Julius Caesar

Best Julius Caesar Quotes: The most famous quotes by Julius Caesar

Men willingly believe what they wish. — Julius Caesar

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. — Julius Caesar

Veni, vidi, vici. I came, I saw, I conquered — Julius Caesar

Et tu, Brute. You also, Brutus. — Julius Caesar

Best Nero Claudius Caesar Quotes: The most famous quotes by Nero Claudius Caesar

What an artist the world is losing in me — Nero Claudius Caesar

Best John Cage Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Cage

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. — John Cage

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience. — John Cage

The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. — John Cage

Best James M. Cain Quotes: The most famous quotes by James M. Cain

The postman always rings twice. — James M. Cain

Best Mark Caine Quotes: The most famous quotes by Mark Caine

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. — Mark Caine

Best Michael Caine Quotes: The most famous quotes by Michael Caine

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. — Michael Caine

Best Mary S. Calderone Quotes: The most famous quotes by Mary S. Calderone

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people. — Mary S. Calderone

Best Mary Steichen Calderone Quotes: The most famous quotes by Mary Steichen Calderone

Our children are not going to be just our children-they are going to be other people’s husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren. — Mary Steichen Calderone

Best Jean Caldwell Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jean Caldwell

The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority. — Jean Caldwell

Best Philip Caldwell Quotes: The most famous quotes by Philip Caldwell

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none. — Philip Caldwell

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