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Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Ashley Montagu


Blame someone else and get on with your life.

Alan Woods


Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham
English conductor (1879 - 1961)


Bond. James Bond.

Ian Fleming


Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide
French critic, essayist, & novelist (1869 - 1951)


But did thee feel the earth move?

Ernest Hemingway
US author & journalist (1899 - 1961)


Big Brother is watching you.

George Orwell
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)


Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut
US novelist (1922 - )


Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Dorothy Parker
US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)


Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.

Maryon Pearson


Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber
US author (1887 - 1968)


By whom?

Dorothy Parker, when told she was outspoken
US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)


Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.

Dame Rebecca West


Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down.

Naomi Bliven


Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.

Elizabeth Adamson


Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)


Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Laurence J. Peter
US educator & writer (1919 - 1988)


Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.

Charles Peters


Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Alexander Pope, Letter to Gay, October 6, 1727
English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744)


Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

Joseph Wood Krutch
US author & critic (1893 - 1970)




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