Bernard Quotes

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

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

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.

Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Food is man's only truly reliable medicine and foods do cure, just the same as wrong foods and drinks may kill us.

Disease preys on a weak and malnourished mind.

The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path...

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.

I enjoy doing nothing.