Bernard Quotes

Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

I made my money by selling too soon.

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.

It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.

Your views are as narrow as your tie.

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

Property is organized robbery.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

You’re hated by some, loved by others, but that’s what’s great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you’re not doing the right thing most of the time.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

I'm not going to give up. If you pay attention to my plan and the way I live and the way I eat, then you have a chance to extend your life a few more years.

The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

The reason for our loving God is God.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.