Blind
- Blindness Hatred is blind, as well as love.
-- Thomas Fuller
- What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
-- Helen Keller
- A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
-- Thomas Fuller
- In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
-- Erasmus
- My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
-- Helen Keller
- There's none so blind as they that won't see.
-- Jonathan Swift
Blood
- Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
-- Benito Mussolini
- The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
-- Austin O'Malley
- No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
-- Martin Luther
- The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required "blood and sweat and tears."
-- Charles F. Kettering
- The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
-- Tertullian
- Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood ... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!
-- Padraic Pearse
- Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
-- Andrew Jackson
- Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
-- Don Marquis
- Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
-- Charles Kingsley
Blush
- The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
-- Edward Young
- Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
-- Mark Twain
- As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
-- Jonathan Swift
- When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
-- Gregory I
Body
- All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies.
-- Flavius Josephus
- A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
-- Christopher Morley
- We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.
-- Plato
- Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
-- Frank Gelett Burgess
- The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
-- Francis Bacon
- Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.
-- Joseph Hall
Boldness
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
-- Alexander Pope
- Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
-- Emily Dickinson
- Boldness is a child of ignorance.
-- Francis Bacon
- When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take--choose the bolder.
-- W. J. Slim
- In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
-- Livy
- Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
-- Tobias G. Smollett
- Fortune befriends the bold.
-- John Dryden
- Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
-- Francis Bacon
- Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
-- Lucan
- It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
-- Walter Scott
Books
- A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
-- W. H. Auden
- The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
-- Mark Twain
- Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.
-- Francis Bacon
- Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson
- Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
-- Stephen Vincent Benét
- The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
-- Theodore Parker
- The newest books are those that never grow old.
-- Holbrook Jackson
- Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
-- G. C. Lichtenberg
- Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
-- William Ellery Channing
- If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
-- Bertrand Russell
- That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott
- Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
-- Henry David Thoreau
- This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay
- A book is the only immortality.
-- Rufus Choate
- My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water.
-- Mark Twain
- A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
-- Margaret Fuller
- A wicked book cannot repent.
-- Old Proverb
- A room without books is like a body without a soul.
-- Cicero
- If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
-- William Hazlitt
- Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills reason it selfe.
-- John Milton
Borrowing
- He who borrows sells his freedom.
-- German Proverb
- Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Creditors have better memories than debtors.
-- Proverb
- Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
-- Josh Billings
- The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the men who borrow, and the men who lend.
-- Charles Lamb
- Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.
-- Kin Hubbard
- If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.
-- Morris Leopold Ernst
Boys
- When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.
-- Ed Howe
- There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
-- Kin Hubbard
- Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
-- James Thurber
- A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
-- Plato
- A boy is a magical creature--you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.
-- Allan Beck
- The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
-- Herbert Hoover
- Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
-- Kin Hubbard
- The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.
-- Ambrose Bierce
- I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
-- Thomas Campbell Clark
Brevity
- There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
-- Josh Billings
- The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
-- Martin Luther
- It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Never be so brief as to become obscure.
-- Tryon Edwards
- If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
-- Robert Southey
- Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
-- Cicero
- The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
-- Fénelon
- Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
-- Hosea Ballou
- Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
-- Cicero
Brotherhood
- It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor.
-- Eric Hoffer
- We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Speak not too well of one who scarce will know
Himself transfigured in its roseate glow;
Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true,
Remembering always he belongs to you;
Deal with him as a truant, if you will,
But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.
-- Carlos P. Romulo
- We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
-- Booker T. Washington
- We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
-- Lyndon Baines Johnson
- When man to man shall be friend and brother.
-- Gerald Massey
- On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
- Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
-- Heywood Broun
- There is a destiny that makes us brothers:
None goes his way alone:
All that we send into the lives of others
Comes back onto our own.
-- Edwin Markham
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