Bernard Quotes

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

Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.

If you control your distribution, you control your image.

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

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

God is dead but my hair is perfect.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

A good product can last forever.

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.

Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.

Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."

Art is 'I'; science is 'we'.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.