Bernard Quotes
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.
This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
A day's work is a day's work neither more nor less and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance a night's repose and due leisure whether he be painter or ploughman.
Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.
Englishmen never will be slaves they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity.
It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.