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Quotes on Books Immortal sons deifying their sires. Plato (428-347 Bc) Greek philosopher If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write …
Quotes on Bohemia The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but …
Quotes on Bloody-Mindedness A state of mind halfway between anger and cruelty. Wayland Young (b. 1923) British politician, writer Why be disagreeable, when with a little effort …
Quotes on Bloodsports When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we …
Quotes on Blindness But who would rush at a benighted man And give him two black eyes for being blind? Thomas Hood (1799-1845) English poet If the blind …
Quotes on Biography One of the new terrors of death. John Arbuthnot (1667-1735) English writer, physician A great American need not fear the hand of his assassin; …
Quotes on Bills Alas! how deeply painful is all payment! Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to …
Quotes on Bigotry Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Indian author, philosopher Defoe says that there were …
Quotes on Bestiality When someone behaves like a beast, he says: “After all, one is only human.” But when he is treated like a beast, he says: “After all, …
Quotes on Benefactors I love my fellow creatures — I do all the good I can — Yet everybody says I’m such a disagreeable man! W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) …