#wi

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#comes #company #conversation #full #good

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#american idea #democratic #every #every man #god

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#balloon #boat #gas #go #god

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. ↗

— Lyman Beecher

#chase #death #itself #lie #never

I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#any #audience #credit #give #had

You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#buy #certainly #checked #clean #coast

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#bacchus #drunken #glorious #i #i am

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#discloses #disguises #foolish #lack #their

When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a bottle of wine, have dinner, and then read or watch television. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#best #bottle #day #dinner #done

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose. ↗

— Paul Begala

#bill clinton #clinton #comfortable #final #going