Bernard Quotes

You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fascism to think like that.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.