Bernard Quotes
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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.
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God is the god of his idolatry.
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.
Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.
Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.
People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.
Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
Did you hear what this idiot just said!? He said it's not about the W...It's everything about the W with me!
