The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the i...
BERNARD GRASSET During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But n...
BERNARD BARUCH Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
SAINT BERNARD For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ...
SAINT BERNARD Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do...
SAINT BERNARD Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav...
SAINT BERNARD I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C...
SAINT BERNARD The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure...
SAINT BERNARD A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do ...
SAINT BERNARD Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in...
SAINT BERNARD Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in ...
SAINT BERNARD That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
SAINT BERNARD There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lackin...
SAINT BERNARD You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason...
SAINT BERNARD I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lor...
SAINT BERNARD Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a...
SAINT BERNARD Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong...
SAINT BERNARD In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?...
SAINT BERNARD Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell al...
SAINT BERNARD God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereig...
SAINT BERNARD We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ...
SAINT BERNARD I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
SAINT BERNARD What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contem...
BERNARD LEVIN Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally ...
BERNARD LEVIN The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its likin...
BERNARD BECKETT People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the par...
BERNARD WILLIAMS The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at ...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was clas...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
BERNARD WILLIAMS I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put o...
BERNARD WILLIAMS People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by ...
BERNARD WILLIAMS A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
BERNARD WILLIAMS If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's t...
BERNARD WILLIAMS What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
BERNARD WILLIAMS A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
BERNARD WILLIAMS 'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.
BERNARD WILLIAMS The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
BERNARD WILLIAMS An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
BERNARD WILLIAMS The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who,...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive f...
BERNARD WILLIAMS We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becomin...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Look, have whatever in your collection at home, but everybody needs a little Friday night. And reall...
BERNARD EDWARDS Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to t...
SAINT BERNARD We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
BERNARD BARUCH I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.
BERNARD MANNING I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on...
BERNARD HILL There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . The fa...
BERNARD LOVELL If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring wi...
BERNARD SUMNER Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.
BERNARD SUMNER Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
CLAUDE BERNARD Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
BERNARD BRANSON The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distort...
BERNARD INGHAM A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.
BERNARD MAGAZINE A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still the...
BERNARD BARUCH Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
BERNARD BARUCH We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some servic...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
BERNARD BARUCH Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qu...
BERNARD BERENSON To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that ...
BERNARD EDMONDS Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
ST. BERNARD Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
ST. BERNARD Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
BERNARD MELTZER We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving
BERNARD MELTZER During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But ...
BERNARD BARUCH Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. E...
BERNARD BARUCH I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
BERNARD BARUCH There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
BERNARD WILLIAMS I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone.
BERNARD GILPIN Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a ...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to re...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.
CLAUDE BERNARD Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nake...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE You talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the s...
BERNARD BARUCH Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
BERNARD WILLIAMS When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they...
BERNARD BAILEY There are no such things as incurable s. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
BERNARD BARUCH Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed ...
BERNARD BARUCH No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
BERNARD BARUCH I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat.
BERNARD BARUCH Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
BERNARD BERENSON If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarma...
BERNARD BARUCH The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
BERNARD DEVOTO I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wast...
BERNARD BERENSON Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
ST. BERNARD The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it f...
BERNARD DEVOTO Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your faili...
BERNARD BARUCH No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to den...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is...
ST. BERNARD Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD BARUCH Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamai...
BERNARD BERENSON If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete...
BERNARD MELTZER Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do ...
BERNARD BARUCH The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the...
BERNARD BARUCH In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
BERNARD BARUCH Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.
BERNARD BARUCH Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
BERNARD BARUCH When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to ...
BERNARD BARUCH Bears don't live on Park Avenue.
BERNARD BARUCH I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
ST. BERNARD If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be ri...
BERNARD BARUCH A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which...
CLAUDE BERNARD If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
BERNARD BARUCH Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
DOROTHY BERNARD Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
BERNARD MELTZER Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage an...
BERNARD BARUCH A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
BERNARD BARUCH The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhil...
BERNARD AVISHAI It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentf...
BERNARD BERKOWITZ In America, if you put your mind to it you can have anything you want. You just can't have everythin...
BERNARD BARUCH The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
ST. BERNARD Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
BERNARD BERENSON Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of ...
BERNARD DEVOTO The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
BERNARD BARUCH The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
BERNARD DEVOTO People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the po...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secret...
BERNARD MELTZER Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope
BERNARD BERENSON To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that y...
BERNARD EDMONDS There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
BERNARD MELTZER Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nat...
BERNARD MELTZER Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD BARUCH Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpfu...
BERNARD MELTZER Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
BERNARD BERENSON A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slight...
BERNARD MELTZER A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slight...
BERNARD MELTZER The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the ...
SAINT BERNARD Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use i...
BERNARD BARUCH I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who ...
BERNARD GOLDBERG I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
BERNARD BARUCH Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is...
BERNARD BECKETT If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
BERNARD WILLIAMS We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
BERNARD MELTZER We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
BERNARD WILLIAMS To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
BERNARD ARNAULT One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before ...
BERNARD BARUCH I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
BERNARD MALAMUD You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can ...
BERNARD MELTZER If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete...
BERNARD MELTZER There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
BERNARD MELTZER Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you ...
SAINT BERNARD There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
BERNARD WILLIAMS I made my money by selling too soon.
BERNARD BARUCH When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
BERNARD MELTZER Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chan...
BERNARD CORNWELL Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own f...
BERNARD BARUCH You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a mor...
BERNARD PIVOT They’re praying to ham bones, ham bones! The blessed pig!
BERNARD CORNWELL I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happil...
BERNARD CORNWELL Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
BERNARD CORNWELL In my experience of shame, the other sees all of me and all through me, even if the occasion of sham...
BERNARD WILLIAMS I really missed them, ... [They're] all I have now. [My] house is gone, trucks gone -- brand new tru...
BERNARD WILLIAMS It's a damn good idea. And it's a long overdue idea.
BERNARD WILLIAMS It sounds like you would be good for housing, but we?re a community treatment team. We?re working wi...
BERNARD WILLIAMS We are potentially looking at tens of thousands of pounds. The Hirst and the McCartney are star lots...
BERNARD WILLIAMS I thought as a millennium project it would be fun … to have all the peo...
BERNARD WEBER I believe that after more than 2,000 years it's time to redefine the world wonders. Thanks to intern...
BERNARD WEBER I have to admit, before I started the project, I had about three weeks of sleepless nights. The idea...
BERNARD WEBER They should become symbols of unity in the modern world, just as the original seven wonders were sym...
BERNARD WEBER The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
BERNARD VOTO The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriage...
BERNARD VOTO The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse stead...
BERNARD VOTO Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom
BERNARD VOTO The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it
BERNARD VOTO Tuesday can be a turning point. It's set to be a big day. It has to be a very big day. We've counted...
BERNARD THIBAULT We won't let the freedom of firing at whim install itself in French legislation.
BERNARD THIBAULT The government has to admit, in light of yesterday's protest, that this reform cannot be implemented...
BERNARD THIBAULT Tuesday can be a turning point.
BERNARD THIBAULT That would be a decision with serious consequences.
BERNARD THIBAULT When all unions join together to bring a consistent message, there is a response and support from th...
BERNARD THIBAULT We haven't yet convinced the prime minister to withdraw the C.P.E..
BERNARD THIBAULT Each day lost to respond to workers' requests is increasing tension. This is turning into a real eme...
BERNARD THIBAULT We are more than three million on the street. It is historic. It is unthinkable for the prime minist...
BERNARD THIBAULT We will not allow it to be written in French law that workers can be laid off at a click of the fing...
BERNARD THIBAULT The choice of Texas for the meeting is symbolic. Lost in the focus on the federal legislation are th...
BERNARD SIEGEL He said if I would form an organization to advance scientific research from a legal perspective, he ...
BERNARD SIEGEL I feel like I jumped out of an airplane at 40,000 feet without a parachute,
BERNARD SIEGEL I realized there was a vacuum, an unmet need for an organization that could stitch together all of t...
BERNARD SIEGEL You can almost reach out and touch Ed Turner's impact on CNN. His standards were so high. The things...
BERNARD SHAW Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
BERNARD SHAW What I saw were two F-16 jets and they were circling overhead a single-engine plane and other jet fi...
BERNARD SHAW If you teach a man anything, he will never learn
BERNARD SHAW We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing vari...
BERNARD SANDERS I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environment...
BERNARD SANDERS What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness tha...
BERNARD SANDERS I think right now within the veterans community, certainly with the Congress, there is generally wid...
BERNARD SANDERS The Republican leadership today demonstrated a blatant abuse of power in subverting House rules and ...
BERNARD SANDERS We are facing a national crisis. We had a very serious situation before Katrina, ... It is very frig...
BERNARD SANDERS Tom DeLay is the leader of the extreme right-wing faction in American politics whose policies and ab...
BERNARD SANDERS I agree with the President that we're going to have to spend billions to rebuild New Orleans, but I ...
BERNARD SANDERS