Bernard Quotes

A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love.

Wearing a hat confers undeniable authority over those without one.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.

Charity you can give even when you haven't got.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers.

You know what circumcision is, Private?

The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly.

The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.

I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.

Consciousness creates reality.

Playing the game is far more satisfying than reading the rules.

I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.

I function better when my back is to the wall.

When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.

Boxers are resilitant guys. We know how to take of a big punch that hits us, we know how to survive. Oscar is a survivor, he's gonna be back bigger and stronger.

I am going in there to win this fight. I don't think people are taking me seriously. I'm gonna surprise a lot of people. This guy helped two people make history.

I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.

The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.

You benefit from getting in enough volume at the beginning of your training.

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.

A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human dignity which one doesn't find in other societies.

The direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

The Bible is still loved by millions, read by millions, and studied by millions. It remains the most published and most read book in the world of literature.

Our epoch does not love itself.

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role.

Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.