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| As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| As irrigations lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
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| Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it. | Buddy Hackett | |
| I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing. | Buddy Hackett | |
| Without Elvis, none of us could have made it. | Buddy Holly | |
| The only discipline that last is self discipline. | Bum Phillips | American Football Coach |
| An expert is an ordinary fella away from home. | Bum Phillips | American Football Coach |
| Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half. | Bum Phillips | American Football Coach |
| If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys. | Bumper Sticker | |
| There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate. | Bumper Sticker | |
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| To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it. | Bunker Hunt | |
| A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. | Burt Bacharach | 1928, American Musician |
| I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee. | Burt Lancaster | 1913-1994, American Actor |
| My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave. | Burt Reynolds | 1936-, American Actor, Director |
| Temperance is a bridle of gold. | Burton | |
| Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet. | Burton | |
| Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. | Burton Hills | |
| What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. | Burton Rascoe | |
| I can forget my very existence in a deep kiss of you. | Byron Caldwell Smith | |
| Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales. | Byron J. Langenfield | |
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| One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing. | Byron Nelson | 1912-, American Golfer |
| The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. | C | harles) P(ercy) Snow (1905-1980, British Novelist, Physicist |
| If you pursue happiness you never find it. | C | harles) P(ercy) Snow (1905-1980, British Novelist, Physicist |
| Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. | C. Archie Danielson | |
| Let the ideas clash but not the hearts. | C. C. Mehta | |
| There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going. | C. C. Phelps | |
| You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us. | C. D. Andrews | 1913-1992, British Poet, Scholar |
| O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label. | C. D. Andrews | 1913-1992, British Poet, Scholar |
| When new turns of behaviour cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behaviour ceases to be intelligent. | C. E. Coghill | |
| A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. | C. E. Montague | 1867-1928, British Author, Journalist |
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| Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have Certainty without any proof. | C. E. Montague | 1867-1928, British Author, Journalist |
| Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. | C. Everett Koop | |
| Of all great poems, love is the absolute and essential foundation. | C. Fitzhugh | |
| Sorrow has produced more melody than mirth. | C. Fitzhugh | |
| There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy. | C. Fitzhugh | |
| Quality isn't something that can be argued into an article or promised into it. It must be put there. If it isn't put there, the finest sales talk in the world won't act as a substitute. | C. G. Campbell | |
| Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance. | C. H. Fowler | |
| For I've been born and I've been wed -- all of man's peril comes of bed. | C. H. Webb | |
| Vigilance is the virtue of vice. | C. J. Weber | |
| The civilized savage is the worst of all savages. | C. J. Weber | |
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