Belief

1. Man willingly believe what they wish.
                                                      -Julius Caesar

2. Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
                                                                         -Dinah Mulock Craik

3. A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
                                                                        -Havelock Ellis, The
                                                                         Dance of life

4. He that believeth not shall be damned.
                                                     -Mark. XVI. 16

5. Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
                                                                            -Montaigne 

6. She deceiving, I believing; What need lovers wish for more?
                                                                            -Sir Charles Sedley

Beginning

1. Well begun is half done.
                                   -Horace

2. He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
                                                                          -Scott, Kenilworth

3. It is the beginning of the end.
                                        -Talleyrand

4. The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
                                                      -Voltaire

Begging

1. Beggars must be no choosers.
                                       -Beaumont And
                                             Fletcher, Scornful
                                            Lady

2. Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop.
                                                                     -Burton, Anatomy of
                                                                      Melancholy

3. Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
                                                                  -La Fontaine

4. Borrowing is nor much better than begging.
                                                             -Lessing, Nathan the
                                                              Wise

Bee

1. The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
                                                    -St. Chrysostom 

2. The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
                                                                                    -Lyly, Euphues

3. How doth the little busy bee 
             Improve each shinning hour,
    And gather honey all the day
             From every opening flower.
                                         -Isaac Watts, Against
                                          Idleness

Bed

1. In bed we laugh, in bed we cry;
    And born in bed, in bed we die;
    The near approach a bed may show
    Of human bliss to human woe.
                                           -Isaac De Benserade

2. As you make your bed you must lie in it.
                                                           -English Proverb

3. The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.
                                                             -Napoleon

Beauty

1. There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
                                                                   -Lady Blessington

2. That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
                                                 -Ninon De L'Enclos

3. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
                                                                -Khalil Gibran

4. A thing of beauty is joy forever.
                                         -Keats, Endymion

5. Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
                                -Keats, Ode on a Grecian
                                           Um

6. She walks in beauty like night
    Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
    And all that's best of dark and bright
    Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
    Thus mellowed to that tender light
    Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
                                                 -Byron, She Walks in
                                                  Beauty

7. Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away.
               -Mere

8. Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
                                                   -Charles Reade

9. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.
                                                                     -Ruskin

Bargain

1. It takes two to make a bargain.
                                         -English Proverb

2. It's a bad bargain where nobody gains.
                                             -English Proverb

3. The best if a bad bargain. 
                               -Pepys, Diary

Bank

1. A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains.
                                                                           -Anonymous

2. banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
        -Jefferson, Letter to 
            Gerry

Bachelor

1. A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but do not eat the game.
                     -Anonymous

2. A bachelor is a souvenir of some women who found  a better one at the last minute.
                         -Anonymous

3. The best work, and of greatest merit for the public, has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
                                                          -Bacon, Essays

4. A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
                          -Franklin 

5. By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
                               -Wilde, The Importance
                                of Being Earnest

Babyhood

1. Here we have a baby. It is composed of bald head and a pair of lungs.
      -Eugene Fieli, The 
        Tribune Primer

2. Where did you come from, baby dear?
    Out of the Everywhere into here.
                                                   -George MacDonald,
                                                  Song in At the Back of
                                                      the North Wind

3. Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top,
    When the wind blows the cradle will rock,
    When the bough bends the cradle will fall,
    Down comes the baby, cradle and all.
                                                              -Old Nursery Rhyme

4. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.
       -Psalms. VIII. 2

5. Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber,
            Holy angles guard thy bed!
    Heavenly blessings without number
           Gently falling on thy head.
                                                     -Isaac Watts, A Cradle 
                                                               Hymn

6. Sweetest li'l feller, everybody knows;
    Dunno what to call him, but he is mighty lak' a rose;
    Lookin' at his mammy wid eyes so shiny blue
    Mek' you think that Heav'n is comin' clost ter you.
                                                                     -Frank L. Station,
                                                                     Mighty Lak' a Rose

Aviation

1. What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
              -William Law, A Serious
                Call to a Devout and
                Holy Life (1728)

2. The birds can fly,
   An' why can't I?
                     -Throw Bridge, Darius
                       Green and His Flying
                       Machine (1869)

3. He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
                       -Psalms. XVIII. 10

Autumn

1. The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear.
                                                                       -Bryant, The death of
                                                                        Flowers

2. The year's in the wane;
         There is nothing adoring;
   The night has no eve,
         And the day has no morning;
   Cold winter gives warning!
                                   -Hood, Autumn

3. O, it sets my heart a clicking' like the ticking' of a clock,
   When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
                                                                  -James Whit-comb Riley,
                                                                   When the frost Is on
                                                                   the Punkin

Authorship

1. He who writes prose builds his temple to fame in rubble;
    he who writes verses builds it in granite.
                                                            -Bulwer-Lytton

2. The pen is the tongue of the mind.
                                                    -Cervantes, Don
                                                         Quixote

3. The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
                                                               -Disraeli

4. An incredible itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
                                                        -Juvenal, Satires

5. You do not publish your own verses, Laelius; you criticise. Pray cease to criticise mine, or else publish your own.
                                                                      -Martial

6. The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of martyr.
                                                                   -Mohammad, Tribute to 
                                                                              Reason