Bernard Quotes

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.

If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.

I race to win, not to please people

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

When change is necessary, not to change is destructive!

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.

Nutrition is the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best medicine!

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Humility is not weakness, but strength under control

Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Expect much of God, and he will do much for you.

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.