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.

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

God is always on the side of the big battalions.

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.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

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

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

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

The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Common sense is not so common.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

A witty saying proves nothing.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

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

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Regimen is superior to medicine.

Love truth, and pardon error.

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

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

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

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

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

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.