Baby
- When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
-- James Matthew Barrie
- Babies are such a nice way to start people.
-- Don Herold
- The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
-- Kin Hubbard
- A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg
Bachelor
- The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
-- Finley Peter Dunne
- Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
-- H. L. Mencken
- Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken
- By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
-- Oscar Wilde
- It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
-- H. L. Mencken
- A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
-- Jean de La Bruyère
- I would be married, but I'd have no wife,
I would be married to a single life.
-- Richard Crashaw
- A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
-- Helen Rowland
- A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Bargain
- Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
-- Albert Einstein
- Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
-- Plutarch
- ... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
-- Kin Hubbard
- There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
-- Anatole France
Beauty
- Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
-- Horace
- Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-- George Brossin Méré
- ... it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
-- James Matthew Barrie
- In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley
- There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
-- Countess of Blessington
- Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
-- Charles Reade
- Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
-- Kin Hubbard
- Beauty is not caused. It is.
-- Emily Dickinson
- Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
-- Johann von Schiller
- Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
-- Edward Gibbon
- I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
-- Benedict Spinoza
- My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?
-- Kotomichi
Behavior
- With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
-- Otto von Bismarck
- I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
-- Orson Welles
- Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
-- Wilson Mizner
- Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.
-- Kin Hubbard
- As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
-- Lew Wallace
- Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.
-- Kin Hubbard
- When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
-- E. G. Stakman
Belief
- Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
-- William James
- We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
-- Oscar Wilde
- Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
-- Michel de Montaigne
- Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
-- James Matthew Barrie
- The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
-- James A. Froude
- It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
-- John Burroughs
- Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for--because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
-- Peter Marshall
- One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
-- John Stuart Mill
Bible
- The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
- Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
-- Mark Twain
- The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity.
-- John Sullivan Dwight
- To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.
-- Walter S. Landor
- The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
-- Samuel Butler
- The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
- All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come on high and are contained in the sacred writings.
-- John F. Herschel
- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
-- Bertrand Russell
- If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
- John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.
-- Rupert Hughes
- The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
-- George W. Foote
Bigotry
- A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
-- Joseph Addison
- There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
-- Horace Greeley
- Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
- Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
-- Josh Billings
Birth
- Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
-- Edward Young
- About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.
-- Kin Hubbard
- If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
-- Laurence Housman
- The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
-- Benito Mussolini
- To heir is human.
-- Dolores E. McGuire
- The moment you're born you're done for.
-- Arnold Bennett
- There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
-- Josh Billings
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