Freebsd Fortunes 3

Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers.  There is, indeed, no wild beast
more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
If you are civil to the voluble, they will abuse your patience; if
brusque, your character.
                -- Jonathan Swift

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive
it.  If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.
                -- Peter Ustinov

British Israelites:
        The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to
be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported by Sargon of Assyria
on the fall of Sumeria in 721 B.C. ... They further believe that the future
can be foretold by the measurements of the Great Pyramid, which probably
means it will be big and yellow and in the hand of the Arabs.  They also
believe that if you sleep with your head under the pillow a fairy will come
and take all your teeth.
                -- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"

broad-mindedness, n:
        The result of flattening high-mindedness out.

Brogan's Constant:
        People tend to congregate in the back
        of the church and the front of the bus.

brokee, n:
        Someone who buys stocks on the advice of a broker.

Brooke's Law:
        Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool
        discovers something which either abolishes the system or
        expands it beyond recognition.

BS:     You remind me of a man.
B:      What man?
BS:     The man with the power.
B:      What power?
BS:     The power of voodoo.
B:      Voodoo?
BS:     You do.
B:      Do what?
BS:     Remind me of a man.
B:      What man?
BS:     The man with the power...
                -- Cary Grant, "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer"

Buck-passing usually turns out to be a boomerang.

Bucy's Law:
        Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.