Voltaire Funny Quotes

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• 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.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Failure

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

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

  Voltaire

  Funny, Peace, War

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

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

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, God

  Letter to M. Damilaville, 16 May 1767

• Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Use It Or Lose It, Prejudice

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

  Voltaire

  Funny, Appreciation, Perfection

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

  Voltaire

  Funny, Hilarious, Silly

• I hate women because they always know where things are.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Funny, Cute

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

  Voltaire

  Funny, Friendship, Best Friend

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

  Voltaire

  Funny, Sarcastic, Mind

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

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

  Voltaire

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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

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

  Voltaire

  Funny, Humor, Law

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

  Voltaire

  Funny, Triumph, Reason

• God created sex. Priests created marriage.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Marriage, Sexy

• The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Witty, Smart

  1736 Le Mondain.

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

  Voltaire

  Funny, Religion, Has Beens

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

  Voltaire

  Funny, Men, Thinking

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

  Voltaire

  Funny, Witty, Philosophy

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

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Writing

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

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

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Work

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

• Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Government, Shepherds

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

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