Sir Francis Bernard

Famous quotes containing the words sir, francis and/or bernard:

    We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
    Humphrey, Sir Gilbert (c.1537–1583)

    Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
    Mario Puzo, U.S. author, screenwriter, and Francis Ford Coppola, U.S. director, screenwriter. Michael Corleone (Al Pacino)

    What is laisser-faire but an orthodoxy? The most tyrannous and disastrous of all the orthodoxies, since it forbids you even to learn.
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)