Bernard Williams Quotes
- Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.
- It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.
- I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.
- No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.
- Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty…
- Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."
- Few things move as quietly as the future.
- The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was…
- A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
- Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.
- An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
- Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
- Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
- What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
- There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
- We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
- If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
- Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.
- People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.
- Books had instant replay long before televised sports.