Amusing Quotes by Author

Last Names Starting With B

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.
      — Russell Baker, author
 

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
      — Charles Barkley, retired basketball star
 

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
      — Charles Baudelaire, French poet
 

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
      — Charles Baudelaire, French poet
 

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
      — Hector Berlioz, composer
 

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
      — Erma Bombeck, American humorist
 

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
      — Napoleon Bonaparte
 

In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
      — Napoleon Bonaparte
 

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
      — Elayne Boosler, comic
 

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
      — William Bragg, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
 

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
      — William F. Buckley Jr., American author, conservative journalist and commentator
 

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as you go along.
      — Samuel Butler, author
 

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