1,000,001 Things I Wish I Had Said First

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Ball handling and dribbling are my strongest weaknesses.

          David Thompson

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.

          Yogi Berra

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

          Wernher Von Braun

Basically, Doom is a (violent) 3D arcade game where you run around in a maze and kill things with shotguns and chainsaws. . . . After you get tired of killing things, you can run it over a network and kill things together with your friends. After you get tired of that, you can kill your friends.

          the Doom FAQ

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes into you.

          Nietzsche

Be an optimist--at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Kennedy.

          Current Comedy

Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.

          Iara Gassen

Be careful what you set your heart upon--for it will surely be yours.

          James Baldwin

Be happy. It is a way of being wise.

          Colette

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

          Scottish proverb

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.

          Wilson Mizner

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

          Spinoza

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

          Johann Georg Von Zimmermann

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

          Thomas Jefferson

Be sure to keep busy, so the devil may always find you occupied.

          Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Beef: Good Fast Food from the Makers of Milk.

          Jeff Schwartz

Before the Home Rule Bill is enforced, Asquith will have to walk over many dead bodies--his own included.

          letter from an Ulster Unionist

Before you borrow money from a friend, decide which you need more.

          anonymous

Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued. . . . Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.

          Illinois Department of Public Aid

Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

          James B. Conant

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth, and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. "Sanity is not statistical."

          George Orwell

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.

          Rudyard Kipling

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

          Andr  Gide

Benedict may not be hurt as much as he really is.

          Jerry Coleman

Besides, we don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents.

          Bob Ross, Joy of Painting

. . . Beware
Of Good Samaritans--walk to the right
Or hide thee by the roadside out of sight
Or greet them with the smile that villains wear.

          R. C. Dunning

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

          Benjamin Franklin

Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.

          William Feather, Sr.

Beware! To touch these wires is instant death. Anyone found doing so will be prosecuted.

          sign at a railroad station

Beyond each corner new directions lie in wait.

          Stanislaw Lec

Bill would exempt minors from death.

          headline in the Goldsboro (N.C.) News Argus

Black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.

          traditional Turkish description of good coffee

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

          Robert Louis Stevenson

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

          Ambrose Bierce

Brooks Robinson is not a fast man, but his arms and legs move very quickly.

          Curt Gowdy

Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old. That will give you some idea of how old he is.

          Ron Fairly

But getting drunk, and picking up bar ladies, and doing metaphysics are a part of life.

          R. M. Pirsig

But in the case of human beings, friendship is a transitory art, subject to discontinuance without further notice.

          O. Henry, "Telemachus, Friend"

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

          Herman Melville

Buttered saucepans and fried hormones

          Japanese menu item

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to work twelve hours a day.

          Robert Frost