Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Be checked for silence, / But never tax'd for speech. All's Well, i. 1.

Be commonplace and cringing, and everything is within your reach. Beaumarchais.

Bedenkt, der Teufel der ist alt, / So werdet alt ihn zu verstehen—Consider, the devil is old; therefore grow old to understand him. Goethe.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. Wellington.

Be England what she will, / With all her faults 55 she is my country still. Churchill.

Bees will not work except in darkness; thought will not work except in silence; neither will virtue work except in secrecy. Carlyle.

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. Emerson.

Before every one stands an image (Bild) of what he ought to be; so long as he is not that, his peace is not complete. Rückert.

Before honour is humility. Bible.

Before man made us citizens, great Nature 60 made us men. Lowell.