Bernard Quotes

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

Fewer women would have abortions if wombs had windows.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

I'll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

Who loves me will love my dog also.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.

God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

Better never than late.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

If you control your distribution, you control your image.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.