Humorous Sayings
1,488 sayings found from the Early Modern era
You are the worst rascal of all the rascals on earth!
In lying fashion you ignore what even children know.
I would not smell the foul odor of your name.
You people are more stupid than a block of wood.
The Holy Spirit unveiled the Scriptures for me in this tower at the lavatory.
The pope, a nemesis, was his 'dearest little ass-pope.'
The book of Esther I toss into the Elbe. I am such an enemy to the book of Esther that I wish it did not exist, for it Judaizes too much and has in it a great deal of heathenish foolishness.
Nor let ministers cease studying until they have discovered and are sure that they have taught the devil to death and have become more learned than God himself and all His saints.
We should not break our heads at work and injure our bodies … I myself used to do such things, and I have racked my brains because I still have not overcome the bad habit of overworking. Nor shall I overcome it as long as I live.
A man remains foolish until his 40th year, when he begins to recognize his foolishness; then life is soon over.
If the earth is fit for laughter, then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.
You have as much laughter as you have faith.
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
Why do you call her inferior, when from her, kings are born?
False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.
Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth nor do they meditate on it.
For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of…
In the mean time do all you can to cure him of Bashfullness which will ruin him in this impudent age; but beware he be not led into the opposite vice of self conceit or arrogance which is 1000 times worse.
Dr Priestly (sic) was once very ill with gall stones & was cured by abstinence from Butcher meat. ... fish & vegetables & butter or fat did not hurt him when taken in moderation, but his Doctors must know better than I do what is good for him.
groped in the dark, misled by many an ignis fatuus, but nature has a weak side, if we can only find it out.