Jose Bergamin Quotes
Top 61 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jose Bergamin
Jose Bergamin Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Jose Bergamin on Wise Famous Quotes.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.
There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.
When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say What lovely music!
I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.
You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.