Bernard Quotes
Why do people say they wish every day was Friday? If it was always Friday, we'd be here every freakin' day.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.
Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
