Free Web Hosting by Netfirms
Web Hosting by Netfirms | Free Domain Names by Netfirms


~~ B ~~
~~ 601 to 700 ~~

~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~


601. Beware beginnings.

602. Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

603. Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop

604. Beware of a man of one book. English Proverb

605. Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting. Burmese Proverb

606. Beware of a silent dog and still water.

607. Beware of a silent man and still water.

608. Beware of actors when flying in walls, for they will stand and watch and get crushed.

609. Beware of after-claps.

610. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau

611. Beware of altruism. It's based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

612. Beware of breed. (=Ill breed.)

613. Beware of dark rooms... they might be the morgue.

614. Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.

615. Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee.

616. Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

617. Beware of food products whose ingredients are in quotation marks.

618. Beware of geeks bearing gifs.

619. Beware of going back to patch up your plays.

620. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts

621. Beware of Had I wist.

622. Beware of half-truths - you may have the wrong half.

623. Beware of him that is slow to anger; anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.

624. Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

625. Beware of irresolution in the intent of thy actions, beware of instability in the execution; so shalt thou triumph over two great failings of thy nature.

626. Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. --Benjamin Franklin

627. Beware of low-flying butterflies.

628. Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.

629. Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.--Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

630. Beware of people who dislike cats.

631. Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. --Abraham Lincoln

632. Beware of still water, a still dog, and a still enemy.

633. Beware of the actors during scene changes, for they are not like unto you and are blind in the dark.

634. Beware of the clumsy double contact.

635. Beware of the fanatical search for social justice in extremes. Extremists, of course, never think they're extreme. The spectre of social justice, along with religion, maintains the greatest applicability with misery.

636. Beware of the forepart of a woman, the hind part of a mule, and all sides of a priest.

637. Beware of the light at the end of the tunnel. It could be an oncoming train.

638. Beware of the man of one book.

639. Beware of the man who has the solution before he understands the problem.

640. Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

641. Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. - George Bernard Shaw

642. Beware of the ruling powers! for they do not be-friend a person except for their own needs: they seem like friends when it is to their advantage, but they do not stand by a man when he is hard-pressed.

643. Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. Benjamin Franklin

644. Beware of what the politically correct call learning experiences i.e. I made a terrible mistake but it was a learning experience. Quite often leaning experiences are paid for with the sacrifice of standards. The only leaning experience that is worthwhile is the one that teaches you something of value.

645. Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out. --Lord Jeffrey

646. Beware the fury of a patient man. --John Dryden

647. Beware the fury of a patient man. --Publius Syrus

648. Beware the man of one book.

649. Beware the man who slaps you on the back - he is probably trying to make you cough up something.

650. Beware the unforeseen obstacle.

651. Beware when the great God lets loose a genius upon the world. Then all things are at risk.

652. Beyond a wholesome discipline be gentle with yourself.

653. Beyond the senses are their objects, and beyond the objects is the mind. Beyond the mind is pure reason, and beyond reason is the Spirit in man. Beyond the Spirit in man is the Spirit of the universe, and beyond is the Spirit Supreme. Nothing is beyond the Spirit Supreme: He is the end of the path.

654. Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

655. Bierman's Laws of Contracts: (1) In any given document, you can't cover all the what if's.

656. Bierman's Laws of Contracts: (2) Lawyers stay in business resolving all the unresolved what if's.

657. Bierman's Laws of Contracts: (3) Every resolved what if creates two unresolved what if's.

658. Big Ben is the name of the largest bell in the clock on the houses of parliament, London, not the clock itself. It was named by members of parliament after the stout Commissioner of Works at the time, Sir Benjamin Hall. Big Ben (The bell, not the Commissioner) weighs 12 tons and measures 2.7 x 2.3 metres. Until 1913, the clock was wound by hand.

659. Big Brother is watching you.

660. Big Brother is Watching!

661. Big doesn't necessarily mean better..sunflowers aren't better than violets.

662. Big FISH eat little fish.

663. Big groups never die.

664. Big Ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. Don't forget that, all of you who don't have them. (John Elliot, Jr.)

665. Big mouth.

666. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. --Christopher Morley

667. Bigamist: A man that leads a double wife.

668. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

669. Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

670. Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

671. Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

672. Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. --Charles Simmons

673. Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. --Edwin Hubbel Chapin

674. Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. --Charles Caleb Colton

675. Billing's Law: Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

676. Billings Phenomenon: The conclusions of most good operations research studies are obvious.

677. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

678. Binary, adj.: Possessing the ability to have friends of both sexes.

679. Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.

680. Birchen twigs break no ribs.

681. Birds fly, fishes swim.

682. Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing

683. Birds of a feather flock together.

684. Birth goes with death. Fortune goes with misfortune. Bad things follow good things. Men should realize these. Foolish people dread misfortune and strive after good fortune, but those who seek Enlightenment must transcend both of them and be free of the worldly attachments. Fortune is never permanently...adverse or favorable; one sees her veering from one mood to the other.

685. Birth is much, but breeding is more.

686. Birth is nothing where virtue is not. -- Moliere

687. Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters.

688. Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

689. BIRTHDAY BELIEF SYSTEMS IDEALISM: Happy Birthday. CAPITALISM: I shopped all day for your birthday. ATHEISM: I can't believe it's your birthday. HINDUISM: Holy Cow! Is it your birthday? TAOISM: It's everybody's birthday. BUDDHISM: If your birthday party was held in the forest and nobody came... would it make a sound? EXISTENTIALISM: Your birthday means nothing to me. SARCASM: You don't look half bad for someone twice your age.

690. Bis dat qui cito cat.-He gives twice who gives quickly.

691. Bit by bit the man achieves success. This should be valued but not pushed too far. When the moon is full, waning is inevitable. Quiescence is in order.

692. Bite me!

693. Biting and scratching is Scots folk's wooing.

694. Bitter pills may have wholesome effects..

695. Bizarreness is the essence of the exotic

696. Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job . . .

697. Black will take no other hue.

698. Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky

699. Blame is safer than praise. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

700. Blame St. Andreas -- it's his fault.


To: The List of Wisdom A to Z


Copyright 1996-2001 - KRACKATINNI IS THE REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF RODNEY JOHN O'BRIEN