Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 632 Proverbs quotesProverbs QuotesProverbs Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.~ Sir Francis Bacon Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.~ James Baldwin Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.~ Frederic Bastiat The devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist!~ Charles Baudelaire There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.~ Roy T. Bennett Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.~ Henri-Louis Bergson If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.~ Yogi Berra Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.~ Ambrose Bierce The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.~ Ambrose Bierce Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.~ Ambrose Bierce The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.~ Ambrose Bierce Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.~ Josh Billings A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.~ William Blake Where there is money there is no art.~ William Blake When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.~ George Boas It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.~ Napoleon Bonaparte If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.~ Napoleon Bonaparte Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.~ Napoleon Bonaparte Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print