Quotes 541 till 560 of 4548.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
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Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
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Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
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Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.
The Duty of Owning Books (1859) -
Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.
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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
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Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all.
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Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
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