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Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
Christian Nestell Bovee on intelligence

Kindness is a language the dumb canspeak and the deaf can hear and understand.
Christian Nestell Bovee on kindness

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
Christian Nestell Bovee on love

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Elizabeth Bowen on destiny

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen on love

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
John Bowring on family

The success of any venture will be helped by prayer, even in the wrong denomination.
Charles P. Boyle on success

Success can be insured only by devising a defense against the contingency plan.
Charles P. Boyle on success

In war there is no prize for runner-up.
Omar Bradley on war

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
Louis D. Brandeis on politics

Why be a man when you can be a success?
Bertold Brecht on success

At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.
Richard H. Brien on success

Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott on love

Animals feed; man eats. Only the man of intellect and judgment knows how to eat.
Antheime Brillat on animals

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
Ashleigh Brilliant on ability

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun on failure

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Charles Brower on idea

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
Gene Brown on inspiration

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
Thomas Browne on evil

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Elizabeth B. Browning on beauty