Bernard Quotes

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

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.

There is no greater misery than false joys.

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.

Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

All progress means war with society.

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials.

I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Now is always the hardest time to invest.

Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

Patience wins the race.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.