Bernard Quotes

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.

Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.

The truest interpretations are those with the best justification.

People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

I do consider sounds as living things.

God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.

Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.

There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.