| Author | Quote |
Topic |
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| Bach, Richard | "Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. " | Life |
| Bach, Richard | "Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? " | Love |
| Bacon, Sir Francis | "They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. " | Imagination |
| Bacon, Sir Francis | "If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. " | Science |
| Bacon, Sir Francis | "We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. " | Nature |
| Baez, Joan | "If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? " | War |
| Bagley, Desmond | "If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous. " | Education |
| Bailey, James | "Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art. " | Art |
| Bailey, Pearl | "What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. " | Love |
| Baitaillon, Jean | "Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature. " | Imagination |
| Baker, Russell | "Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. " | Society |
| Baker, Russell | "Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. " | Science |
| Baker, Russell | "I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world. " | Poetry |
| Baker, Russell | "An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. " | Education |
| Baker, Russell | "Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. " | Nature |
| Baldwin, James A. | "Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. " | Love |
| Baldwin, James A. | "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. " | History |
| Baldwin, James A. | "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. " | Love |
| Baldwin, Stanley | "War would end if the dead could return. " | War |
| Baldwin, James A. | "I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. " | Patriotism |
| Ballmer, Steve | "What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' " | Business |
| Ballmer, Steve | "We [Microsoft] don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. " | Business |
| Bankhead, Tallulah | "I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. " | Education |
| Barber, Benjamin R. | "Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. " | Society |
| Barca, Pedro Calderon de la | "When love is not madness, it is not love. " | Love |
| Barcus, Nancy | "The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top." " | Success |
| Barkin, Ellen | "Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. " | Art |
| Barlow, John Perry | "Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds." | Technology |
| Barlow, John Perry | "The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. " | Technology |
| Barlow, John Perry | "We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. " | Technology |
| Barlow, John Perry | "You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions" | Technology |
| Barlow, John Perry | "One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles? " | Technology |
| Barlow, John Perry | "In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. " | Technology |
| Barlow, John Perry | "Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge." | Technology |
| Barney, Natalie Clifford | "When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. " | Love |
| Barrie, Sir James M. | "Life is a long lesson in humility. " | Life |
| Barron, Frank | "The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. " | Imagination |
| Barrow, John D. | "There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. " | Science |
| Barrymore, John | "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. " | Dream |
| Barzun, Jacques | "It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. " | Society |
| Basil, Saint | "Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. " | Nature |
| Bateson, Mary Catherine | "Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool. " | Nature |
| Baudelaire, Charles | "Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. " | Art |
| Baudelaire, Charles | "Always be a poet, even in prose. " | Poetry |
| Baum, L. Frank | "Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization. " | Imagination |
| Baum, L. Frank | "Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. " | Imagination |
| Bear, Standing | "Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. " | Nature |
| Beaton, Sir Cecil | "Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. " | Art |
| Beattie, Bill | "The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. " | Education |
| Bedard, Ray | "Aim for the stars and you'll make it to the moon. Aim for the moon and you'll never make it through the atmosphere. " | Nature |
| Beddoes, Thomas Lovell | "If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? " | Dream |
| Beecher, Henry Ward | "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. " | Art |
| Beecher, Henry Ward | "Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. " | Nature |
| Beecher, Henry Ward | "The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. " | Government |
| Beecher, Henry | "Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. " | Business |
| Bell, Alexander | "When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. " | Business |
| Bell, Alexander Graham | "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. " | Success |
| Benson, A. | "One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. " | Business |
| Berger, Peter | "The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. " | History |
| Bergman, Ingrid | "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. " | Love |
| Berlin, Irving | "The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. " | Success |
| Bernard, Dorothy | "Courage is fear that has said its prayers. " | Religion |
| Bernard Shaw, George | "If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. " | Business |
| Berne, Eric | "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. " | Nature |
| Berners-Lee, Tim | "You affect the world by what you browse. " | Technology |
| Berners-Lee, Tim | "Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. " | Technology |
| Berners-Lee, Tim | "Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. " | Business |
| Berners-Lee, Tim | "Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design. " | Business |
| Bernstein, Al | "Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. " | Success |
| Berry, Wendell | "I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. " | History |
| Berry, Wendell | "To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. " | Nature |
| Berry, Wendell | "I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. " | Nature |
| Bezos, Jeff | "There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second. " | Business |
| Bierce, Ambrose | "Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. " | Education |
| Bierce, Ambrose | "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. " | Education |
| Bierce, Ambrose | "Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. " | Technology |
| Bierce, Ambrose | "History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. " | History |
| Bierce, Ambrose | "Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. " | Business |
| Bierce, Ambrose | "Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. " | Technology |
| Bierce, Ambrose | "Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. " | Success |
| Bierce, Ambrose | "Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. " | Art |
| Bierce, Ambrose | "Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. " | Art |
| Bierce, Ambrose | "Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. " | Nature |
| Bierce, Ambrose | "Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. " | Intelligence |
| Bierce, Ambrose | "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. " | Business |
| Billings, Josh | "There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. " | Experience |
| Billings, Josh | "The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. " | Business |
| Billings, Josh | "Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. " | Art |
| Billings, Josh | "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. " | Life |
| Billings, Josh | "About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. " | Art |
| Billings, Josh | "Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. " | Intelligence |
| Billings, Josh | "If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any safety. " | Faith |
| Birrell, Augustine | "History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. " | History |
| Bismarck, Otto von | "Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. " | Government |
| Black, Hugo L. | "In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. " | History |
| Blades, Reuben | "I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. " | Education |
| Blair, Gary | "Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. " | Business |
| Blair, Gary | "Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlive its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning. " | Business |
| Blake, William | "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. " | Nature |
| Blake, William | "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. " | Friendship |
| Blanton, Smiley | "Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. " | Love |
| Boethius, | "Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. " | Love |
| Bohr, Niels | "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. " | Science |
| Bohr, Niels | "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. " | Science |
| Boliska, Al | "Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? " | Technology |
| Boliska, Al | "Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. " | Business |
| Bolles, Richard | "Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do. " | Business |
| Bombeck, Erma | "Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. " | Success |
| Bombeck, Erma | "It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. " | Dream |
| Bombeck, Erma | "Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. " | Dream |
| Bombeck, Erma | "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me"; " | Life |
| Bombeck, Erma | "Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in. " | Art |
| Bonaparte, Napoleon | "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. " | History |
| Bonaparte, Napoleon | "What is history but a fable agreed upon? " | History |
| Bonaparte, Napoleon | "A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. " | War |
| Bonaparte, Napoleon | "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. " | Religion |
| Bonaparte, Napoleon | "If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. " | Religion |
| Bonaparte, Napoleon | "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. " | History |
| Bonaparte, Napoleon | "If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. " | Peace |
| Boorstin, Daniel J. | "Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. " | Education |
| Boorstin, Daniel J. | "Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. " | Technology |
| Boren, James | "When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder. " | Business |
| Boren, James H. | "I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. " | Science |
| Borenstein, David | "One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force. " | Peace |
| Borenstein, Nathaniel | "The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. " | Computer |
| Borenstein, David | "Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs. " | Government |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | "Democracy is an abuse of statistics. " | Government |
| Borland, Hal | "A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. " | Nature |
| Borland, Hal | "You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. " | Nature |
| Borland, Hal | "Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. " | Nature |
| Borowitz, Eugene B. | "The peculiar malaise of our day is air-conditioned unhappiness, the staleness and stuffiness of machine-made routine. " | Technology |
| Bosch, Robert | "I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. " | Business |
| Bourne, Randolph | "Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. " | Society |
| Bourne, Randolph | "Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. " | Experience |
| Boyle, Hal | "What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else. " | Nature |
| Boynton, Sandra | "Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. " | Science |
| Bradbury, Ray | "Touch a scientist and you touch a child. " | Science |
| Bradbury, Ray | "The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. " | Science |
| Bradley, Gen Omar N. | "If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. " | Technology |
| Bradley, Gen Omar N. | "Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. " | War |
| Bradley, Gen Omar N. | "The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. " | War |
| Bradley, Gen Omar N. | "The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. " | Society |
| Bragg, Sir William | "The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. " | Science |
| Brandeis, Louis D. | "Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. " | Government |
| Brandeis, Louis D. | "Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. " | History |
| Brandeis, Louis D. | "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. " | History |
| Brandeis, Louis D. | "There are no shortcuts in evolution. " | Science |
| Brandwein, Leonard | "Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers. " | Technology |
| Brault, Robert | "I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. " | Friendship |
| Braun, Wernher von | "For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift. " | Technology |
| Braun, Wernher von | "It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. " | Science |
| Braun, Wernher von | "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. " | Science |
| Braun, Wernher von | "We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. " | Science |
| Braun, Wernher von | "Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity. " | Science |
| Breton, Andre | "I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. " | Dream |
| Brightman, Sarah | "I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy. " | Art |
| Brightman, Sarah | "I have a love-hate relationship with performing." | Art |
| Brightman, Sarah | "You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way. " | Art |
| Brinkley, David | "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. " | Success |
| Brittain, Vera | "The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. " | Peace |
| Brodie, Peter | "One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day." " | Education |
| Brogan, D. W. | "For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis - an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business. " | War |
| Brokaw, Tom | "It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. " | Business |
| Brokaw, Tom | "You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. " | Business |
| Bronte, Emily | "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. " | Love |
| Brooke, Rupert | "A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. " | Love |
| Brooke, Rupert | "Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. " | Nature |
| Brooks, Mel | "Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. " | Life |
| Brothers, Dr. Joyce | "The best proof of love is trust. " | Love |
| Brown, Andrew | "The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. " | Technology |
| Brown, Les | "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. " | Business |
| Brown, Sarah | "The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. " | Nature |
| Brown, W. Edward | "The artist has one function-to affirm and glorify life. " | Art |
| Brown, Pam | "For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. " | Nature |
| Brown, Pam | "A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. " | Friendship |
| Brown, Pam | "A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. " | Friendship |
| Brown, Les | "If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. " | Dream |
| Brown, A. Whitney | "The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. " | History |
| Browning, Robert | "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. " | Business |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett | "Whoso loves believes the impossible. " | Love |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett | "I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. " | Love |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett | "God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. " | Dream |
| Browning, Robert | "Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. " | Music |
| Browning, Robert | "God is the perfect poet. " | Poetry |
| Browning, Robert | "Take away love and our earth is a tomb. " | Love |
| Bruce, Lenny | "If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. " | Religion |
| Bruyere, Jean de la | "We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. " | Love |
| Bryant, William Cullen | "The groves were God's first temples. " | Nature |
| Bryant, William Cullen | "Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep. " | Nature |
| Buchwald, Art | "You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. " | Society |
| Buddha, | "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. " | Life |
| Buddha, | "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. " | Friendship |
| Buffett, Warren | "Our favourite holding period is forever. " | Business |
| Buffett, Warren | "Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt see Rule #1 " | Business |
| Buffon, George-Louis de | "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. " | Intelligence |
| Bullock, Sandra | "Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.' " | Movie |
| Bulwer, John | "It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. " | Love |
| Bulwer-Lytton, Edward | "Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. " | Dream |
| Burke, Edmund | "Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. " | Religion |
| Burke, Edmund | "There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. " | Imagination |
| Burns, Irving | "Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night. " | Nature |
| Burns, George | "I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. " | Success |
| Burns, H. | "Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements. " | Business |
| Burroughs, John | "To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. " | Nature |
| Burroughs, John | "I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. " | Nature |
| Burroughs, John | "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. " | Nature |
| Burroughs, John | "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. " | Life |
| Burton, Richard | "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. " | Religion |
| Buscaglia, Leo | "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. " | Love |
| Buscaglia, Leo | "I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. " | Nature |
| Buscaglia, Leo | "Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. " | Love |
| Bush, George W. | "The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war. " | History |
| Butler, Samuel | "God cannot alter the past, though historians can. " | History |
| Butler, Samuel | "Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. " | Experience |
| Butler, Samuel | "A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. " | Nature |
| Butler Yeats, William | "In dreams begins responsibility. " | Dream |
| Butler Yeats, William | "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. " | Education |
| Byrne, Robert | "Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." " | Nature |
| Byrne, David | "Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. " | Love |
| Byrne, Robert | "The purpose of life is a life of purpose. " | Life |
| Byron, Lord | "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roarI love not Man the less, but Nature more. " | Nature |
