Voltaire Funny Quotations

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

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

I hate women because they always know where things are.

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

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.