Bernard Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.

Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job.

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

To lead others out of darkness, let them see your light.

Bears don't live on Park Avenue.

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.

As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

Affordable luxury - these are two words that don't go together.

When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down for long."

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.