Blindness

1. In the country of blind the one-eyed man is king.
                                                                       -Erasmus

2. If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
                                                                         -Matthew. XV. 14

3. There's none so blind as they that won't see.
                                                             -Swift, Polite
                                                                   Conversation

Blessing

1. God bless me and my son John,
    Me and my wife, him and his wife,
    Us four, and no more.
                            -Anonymous

2. Blessings never come in pairs; misfortunes never come alone.
                                                                                -Chinese Proverb

3. God bless us every one.
                           -Dickens, Christmas 
                                    Carol

Birthday

1. January;

    By her who in this month is born,

    No gems save Garnets should be born;

    They will insure her constancy,

    True Friendship and fidelity.

2. February;

    The February born will find

    Sincerity and peace of mind;

    Freedom from passion and from care,

    If they the Pearl (also green amethyst) will wear.

3. March;

    Who in this world of ours their eyes

    In March shall open will be wise;

    In days of peril firm and brave,

    And wear a Blood-stone to their grave.

4. April;

    She who from April dates her years, 

    Diamonds should wear, lest bitter tears

    For vain repentance flow;

    Emblem of innocence is known.

5. May;

    Who first beholds the light of day

    In Spring's sweet flowery month of May

    And wears an Emerald all her life,

    Shall be a loved and happy wife.

6. June;

    Who comes with Summer to this earth

    And owes to June her day of birth,

    With a ring of Agate on her hand,

    Can health, wealth, and long life command.

7. July
    The glowing ruby should adorn
    Those who in warm July are born,
    Then they will be exempt and free
    From love's doubt and anxiety.

8. August
    Wear a Sardonyz  or for thee
    No conjugal felicity.
    The August-born without this stone
    Tis said must lived unloved and lone.

9. September
    A maiden born when Autumn leaves
    Are rustling in September's breeze,
    A Sapphire on her brow should bind,
    Twill cure diseases of the mind.

10. October
      October's child is born for woe,
      And life's vicissitudes must know;
      But lay an Opal on her breast,
      And hope will lull those woes to rest. 

11. November
      Who first comes to this world below
      With drear November's fog and snow
      Should prize Topaz' amber hue---
      Emblem of friends and lovers true.

12. December
      If cold December gave you birth,
      The month of ice and snow and mirth,
      Place on your hand Turquoise blue,
      Success will bless whatever you do.
                                                     -Anonymous

Birth

1. Born on Monday, fair in the face;
    Born on Tuesday, full of God's grace; 
    Born on Wednesday, sour and sad;
    Born on Thursday, merry and glad;
    Born on Friday, worthily given;
    Born on Saturday, work hard for your living;
    Born on Sunday, you will never know want.
                                                               -Anonymous

2. Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
                                                                             -Pliny The Elder
                                                                              Natural History

Birds

1. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
                    -Cervantes, Don
                               Quixote

2. O thrush, your song is passing sweet,
    But never a song that you have sung
    Is half so sweet as thrushes sang
    When my dear love and I were young.
                              -William Morris, Other 
                                Days

3. Birds of a feather will flock together.
                          -Minsheu

4.         And the Raven, never flitting,
            Still is sitting, still is sitting
   On the pallid bust of Pallas
            Just above my chamber door;
            And his eyes have all the seeming
            Of a demon's that is dreaming,
   And the lamplight o'er him streaming
            Throws his shadow on the floor,
   And my soul from out that shadow,
            That lies floating on the floor,
            Shall be lifted----nevermore.
                         -POE, The Raven

Biography

1. Biography is the only true history.
                                                -Carlyle

2. One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
                                                                                 -Channing

3. Lives of great man all remind us
            We can make our line sublime,
    And, departing, leave behind us
            Footprints on the sand of time.
                                             -Longfellow, A Psalm
                                               of Life

4. To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
                                                                                     -Plutarch

5.  Every great man now a days has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
                                 -Wilde, The Critic as 
                                  Artist

Bible

1. I call the Book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written pen.
                                                  -Carlyle

2. The Bible is a window in this prison-world, through which we may look into eternity.
                          -Timothy Dwight

3. The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
                             -Ingersoll, Speech, 1881

4. The English Bible----a book which, if everything else in our language perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
                         -Macaulay

Bells

1. Curfew must not ring tonight.
                                          -Rosa H. Thorpe

2. Those evening bells! those evening bells!
    How many a tale their music tells!
                                                -Moore, Those Evening 
                                                 Bells


3. Ring out the old, ring in the new,
    Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
                                           -Tennyson, In Memoriam
  

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