Bernard Quotes

Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage.

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

September tries its best to have us forget summer.

Money is a most important thing in the world.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.

Of course I know our economic growth can't match our population growth so of course I know we'll all get poorer until we get that number down - don't tell me, tell the other idiots!

Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.

A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.

Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

My reputation grows with every failure.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.