Humorous Sayings
1,488 sayings found from the Early Modern era
Dogs, would you live forever?
Can you keep a secret? — Yes sire! — Good, so can I.
Madame has become more stout.
The more I see of people, the more I love my dog.
All religions must be tolerated... every man must go to heaven in his own way.
Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.
Is it not like cutting off a man's legs and telling him to walk? Is it not like cutting out a man's tongue and telling him to talk? Is it not burying a man alive?
My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes.
Of what my Granadiers are capable, only I know — who they equal will exist, who exceeds them won't.
Your coarse impudence in making me a proposition to employ my sword in a civil war is simply incomprehensible. You insolent scoundrel! Do you realize it has never been dipped in American blood?
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Man is an animal that, so long as he lives among other animals of his species, needs a master.
Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) 'Have courage to use your own understanding!'—that is the motto of enlightenment.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.
The greatest human endeavor is the striving for a good character.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.
It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.