Bernard Quotes

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

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.

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

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

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

There are two marriages, then, in every marital union, his and hers. And his ... is better than hers.

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

If you want to drink, have a drink... if you want to drive, then drive... there's nothing worse than having a smash sober.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

A true buddy is a person who thinks that you'll be a fantastic egg although he is aware that you are somewhat cracked.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

There are so many things I've done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It's going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.

God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.

To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

To be a champion you must live like one.

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.

Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

He who has never hoped can never despair

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change