Bit, n.:
	A unit of measure applied to color.  Twenty-four-bit color
	refers to expensive $3 color as opposed to the cheaper 25
	cent, or two-bit, color that use to be available a few years
	ago.

Bit off more than my mind could chew,
Shower or suicide, what do I do?
		-- Julie Brown, "Will I Make it Through the Eighties?"

Biz is better.

Bizarreness is the essence of the exotic.

Bizoos, n.:
	The millions of tiny individual bumps that make up a
	basketball.
		-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"

Black people have never rioted.  A riot is what white people think blacks
are involved in when they burn stores.
		-- Julius Lester

Black shiny mollies and bright colored guppies,
Shy little angels as gentle as puppies,
Swimming and diving with scarcely a swish,
They were just some of my tropical fish.

Then I got mantas that sting in the water,
Deadly piranhas that itch for a slaughter,
Savage male betas that bite with a squish,
Now I have many less tropical fish.

	If you think that
	Fish are peaceful
	That's an empty wish.
	Just dump them together
	And leave them alone,
	And soon you will have -- no fish.
		-- To My Favorite Things

Blackout, heatwave, .44 caliber homicide,
The bums drop dead and the dogs go mad in packs on the West Side,
A young girl standing on a ledge, looks like another suicide,
She wants to hit those bricks,
	'cause the news at six got to stick to a deadline,
While the millionaires hide in Beekman place,
The bag ladies throw their bones in my face,
I get attacked by a kid with stereo sound,
I don't want to hear it but he won't turn it down...
		-- Billy Joel, "Glass Houses"

Blame Saint Andreas -- it's all his fault.

Blessed are the forgetful:  for they
get the better even of their blunders.
		-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Blessed are the meek for they shall inhibit the earth.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
		-- Herbert Hoover

Blessed are they that have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded
to say it.
		-- James Russell Lowell

Blessed are they who Go Around in Circles,
for they Shall be Known as Wheels.

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.
		-- W. C. Bennett

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
		-- Alexander Pope

Blessed is he who has reached the point of no return and knows it,
for he shall enjoy living.
		-- W. C. Bennett

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
		-- George Eliot

Blinding speed can compensate for a lot of deficiencies.
		-- David Nichols

BLISS is ignorance.