Success and Failure

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. [Select]

Aesop {Also in: Happiness and Misery}

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. [Select]

Howard Aiken

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. [Select]

Kehlog Albran

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commision. [Select]

Fred Allen

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. [Select]

Woody Allen

You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark. [Select]

Wallace Arnold

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. [Select]

Alan Ashley-Pitt

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. [Select]

Richard Bach: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah [Shop] {Also in: Work and Recreation}

Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion. [Select]

Francis Bacon {Also in: Science and Religion}

As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep your eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole! [Select]

Murray Banks

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young. [Select]

Russell Banks {Also in: Life and Death}

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. [Select]

Ben Bayol {Also in: Work and Recreation}

Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em? [Select]

Alan James Bean

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. [Select]

Ludwig van Beethoven

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous. [Select]

Peter Benchley

I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one. [Select]

James G. Bennet

99% of the game is half mental. [Select]

Yogi Berra

It's not over until it's over. [Select]

Yogi Berra

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. [Select]

Yogi Berra

Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. [Select]

Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Also in: Love and Hate}

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