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Voltaire Quotes about Funny

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Funny, Peace, War

"Questions sur les Miracles". Publication by Voltaire, 1765.

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Funny, Marriage, Sexy

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Funny, Use It Or Lose It, Prejudice

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

Funny, Hilarious, Silly

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

Funny, Triumph, Reason

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

Funny, Stupid, Humor

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

Funny, Life, God

Letter to M. Damilaville, 16 May 1767

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

Funny, Friendship, Best Friend

I hate women because they always know where things are.

Inspirational, Funny, Cute

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Funny, Witty, Philosophy

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

Funny, Sarcastic, Mind

'The Leningrad Notebooks' (c.1735-c.1750) in T. Besterman (ed.) 'Notebooks' (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 455

Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

Funny, Life, Writing

"Timeline: a history of free speech" by David Smith, Luc Torres, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2006.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

Funny, Life, Failure

"Le Siecle de Louis XIV (The Age of Louis XIV)". Book by Voltaire (Chapter VI), 1751.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Funny, Witty, Smart

1736 Le Mondain.

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

Funny, Men, Thinking

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Funny, Government, Shepherds

'The Piccini Notebooks' (c.1735-c.1750) in T. Besterman (ed.) 'Notebooks' (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 517

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

Funny, Humor, Law

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

Funny, Appreciation, Perfection

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

Funny, Life, Work

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.227, Penguin

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

Funny, Religion, Has Beens

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