Jan Alkire
* It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
*Grace is getting something you don’t deserve. Mercy is not getting something you do deserve.
Sparky Anderson, baseball manager
* Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.
Edgar Argo
* History celebrates few persons who waited for inspiration.
Ned Arthur
* Pick battles big enough to matter but small enough to win.
Jim Auer
* Wrap yourself around something good and positive and don’t let go.
Jim Auer
* Lord, give me chastity-but not yet.
Saint Augustine
* The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
Barrie
* Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
James M. Barrie
* Tears are often the telescope through which men see far into heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
* Old age is like climbing a mountain. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become. But your view becomes much more extensive.
Ingmar Bergman
* If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
* A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
Milton Berle
* Absurdity is a statement or belief inconsistent with one’s own beliefs.
Ambrose Bierce
* If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Josh Billings
* After you’ve heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident it makes you wonder about history.
Bits & Pieces
* Respect cannot be learned, purchased, or acquired – it can only be earned.
Bits & Pieces
* Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
Bits & Pieces
* The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake
* The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you are though.
* Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
Lady Blessington
* False friends are like our shadows, keeping close to us when we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Bovee
* If a thing goes without saying -- let it.
Jacob Braude
* Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
Robert Brault
* Happiness isn’t getting what you want; it’s wanting what you’ve got.
Garth Brooks
* Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
A. Whitney Brown
* There’s no heavier burden than a great potential.
Charlie Brown
* In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength but by perserverance.
H. Jackson Brown
* You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
** The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown
* It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.
Warren Buffett
* How few there are who have the courage enough to admit their faults or resolution enough to mend them!
* Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
George Burns
* Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
* You have not fulfilled every duty, unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
Charles Buxton
* True happiness comes when you can look at yourself and like what you see.
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