Bernard Quotes

Heartbreak is life educating us.

Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!

Love me, love my dog.

And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

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.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

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.

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.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

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

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

Most scientists never look at UFO evidence, which leads to their conclusion that there is no evidence.

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.

Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

A man can't retire his experience.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight.

You see in others who you are.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.