Quotations Page 'B'

Babies do not want to hear about babies, they like to be told of giants and castles, and that which can stretch and stimulate their little minds.

- Samuel Johnson, Miscellanies -

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A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet unfolded.

- Byron -

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No the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

- Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing -

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All reformers are bachelors.

- George More, The Bending of the Bough -

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Because I will not do the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the right to trust none; I will live a bachelor.

- Shakespeare -

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Ballands are vocal portraits of the national mind.

- Lamb -

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The Banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair and takes it away when it rains.

- Anon -

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Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.

- Sir P. Sidney -

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Beard was never the true standard of brains.

- Fuller -

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There is no excellent beauty that hath and some strangeness in the proportion.

- Francis Bacon, Essays of beauty -

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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

- Bacon -

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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever,Its loveliness increasses : it will neverPass into nothingness.Beauty is truth's smile.

- Keats -

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When she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

- Tagore, Fireflies -

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Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such,Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.

- Shakespeare, Henry VI -

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Beauty is a short-lived reign.

- Socrates -

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Early to bed early to rise.Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

- Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac for 1735 -

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To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.

- Nicholas Breton, Court of Country -

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O bed, delicious bed !That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

- Hood, Miss Kismansegg -

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Beggars must not be choosers.

- Beaumont andFleatchers, Scornful lady -

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