People
- Eógan Bél (died 542), a king of Connacht (in what is now Ireland)
- Jean Le Bel (c. 1290 – 1370), medieval Flemish chronicler
- Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847–1930), French chemist
- Matthias Bel (1684–1749), Hungarian scholar, polymath and Lutheran pastor
- Bel Kaufman (born 1911), American teacher and author, best known for writing the novel Up the Down Staircase
- Bel Mooney (born 1946), English journalist and broadcaster
- Bel Powley, British actress
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“Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“For my people lending their strength to the years: to the gone
years and the now years and the maybe years, washing ironing cooking scrubbing sewing mending hoeing plowing digging planting pruning patching dragging along never gaining never reaping never knowing and never understanding;”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)