Bernard Quotes

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

Those who understand evil pardon it.

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

Become more humble as the market goes your way.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

I want to be all used up when I die.

We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.

Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.

I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.

O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.

As long as I breathe, I attack.

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.