Famous Quotes Name V

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

A witty saying proves nothing.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

Canada: A few acres of snow.

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

A witty saying proves nothing.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

This poem will never reach its destination.

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.

The secret of being boring is to say everything.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

A witty saying proves nothing.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Regimen is superior to medicine.

I have lost the half of myself – a soul for which mine was made.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.