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402. Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

403. Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. - Doug Horton

404. Being too good is apt to be uninterresting.

405. Being well dressed does not prevent one from being poor.

406. Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

407. Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. --Thomas Paine

408. Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

409. Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

410. Believe in love at first sight.

411. Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. Spoil your spouse, not your children. Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. To help your children turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., from Life's Little Instruction Book

412. Believe in miracles, but don't depend on them.

413. Believe in something larger than yourself.

414. Believe in yourself.--Wanda Hope Carter

415. Believe no tales from an ENEMY's tongue.

416. Believe not each accusing tongue,---As most weak persons do,---But still believe that story wrong---Which ought not to be true. ---(R. B. SHERIDAN).

417. Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything. --Latin Proverb

418. Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

419. BELIEVE nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.

420. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. --William James

421. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

422. Believe well and have well.

423. Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

424. Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts. (F.F. Bosworth)

425. Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

426. Bells call others to church, but go not themselves.

427. Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.

428. Ben Lexcen only went to school for three years, so he never learnt that some things are impossible.

429. Benefits please, like flowers, while they are fresh.

430. Benevolence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realised, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbours as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first, and do good to him in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbour, and this thy beneficence will engender:- thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good. ---(KANT).

431. Bennett's Laws of Horticulture: (1) Houses are for people to live in. (2) Gardens are for plants to live in. (3) There is no such thing as a houseplant.

432. Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence

433. Berkeley's Laws: (1) The world is more complicated than most of our theories make it out to be.

434. Berkeley's Laws: (2) Ignorance is no excuse.

435. Berkeley's Laws: (3) Never decide to buy something while listening to the salesman.

436. Berkeley's Laws: (4) Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have a single answer.

437. Berkeley's Laws: (5) Most general statements are false, including this one.

438. Berkeley's Laws: (6) An exception - test a rule; it never proves it.

439. Berkeley's Laws: (7) The moment you have worked out an answer, start checking it; it probably isn't right.

440. Berkeley's Laws: (8) If there is an opportunity to make a mistake, sooner or later the mistake will be made.

441. Berkeley's Laws: (9) Check the answer you have worked out once more - before you tell anybody.

442. Berra's Law: You can observe a lot just by watching. - Yogi Berra

443. Besides being so dumb, he's also a tightwad and a woman- chaser, so he went to Reno because he heard it's a place where women are made free.

444. Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

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446. Best is best cheap. (= The best bargain.)

447. Best to bend while 'tis a twig.

448. Better a bare FOOT than none.

449. Better a clout (=patch) than a hole out.

450. Better a delay than a disaster

451. Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith. --Harry A. Overstreet

452. Better a finger off than always aching.

453. Better a fortune in a wife than with a wife.

454. Better a fowl in hand nor two flying.

455. Better a glorious death than a shameful life.

456. Better a lean peace than a fat victory.

457. Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us.

458. Better a mischief than an inconvenience.

459. Better a mouse (louse) in the pot than no flesh at all.

460. Better a mouse in the pot than no meat at all. Romanian Proverb

461. Better a wee bush than nae bield (no shelter).

462. Better aim at a star than shoot down a well; you'll hit higher.

463. Better an egg in peace than an ox in war.

464. Better an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow.

465. Better an empty house than an ill tenant.

466. Better an idle house than a bad tenant

467. Better an open enemy than a false friend.

468. Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold. -- Yiddish Proverb

469. Better an ugly face than an ugly mind. --James Ellis

470. Better April showers than the breadth of the ocean in gold

471. Better bairns greet (children weep) than bearded men.

472. Better be a fool than a knave.

473. Better be alone than in bad company.

474. Better be an old man's darling than a young man's warring (=object of contempt).

475. Better be born lucky than rich.

476. Better be envied than pitied.

477. Better be FIRST in a village than second at Rome.

478. Better be happy than wise.

479. Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one. Scottish Proverb

480. Better be poor than wicked.

481. Better be quarreling than lonesome. Irish Proverb

482. Better be strict at first and lenient afterwards.

483. Better be stung by a nettle than pricked by a rose. (Better be wronged by an enemy than by a friend.)

484. Better be sure than sorry.

485. Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.

486. Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.

487. Better be unmannerly than troublesome.

488. Better BEG than steal.

489. Better BELLY burst than good meat lost.

490. Better BEND than break.

491. Better bend than break.--Scottish Proverb

492. Better bow than break.

493. Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. Thomas Fuller

494. Better buy than borrow.

495. Better CHILDREN weep than old men.

496. Better come at the latter end of a feast than the beginning of a fray.

497. Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot.

498. Better die a beggar than live a beggar.

499. Better DIE with honour than live with shame.

500. Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.