Bernard Quotes

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

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

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

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

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

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

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.

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

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

When you lack the awareness of being God you make everything impossible. Wow! Stop living in your humanity and start living in your divinity.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

Morality is not respectability.

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation.

NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.

You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo - slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.

Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

Modesty needs to come from the heart.