Humorous Sayings

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by epigrams.

The life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

All that is real is rational; and all that is rational is real.

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.

Absoluteness of power is the most seductive of all illusions.

I think I have been very careful to avoid saying that power is a bad thing. I’m just saying it’s a difficult thing.

If you want to achieve something, you build a structure. If you want to prevent something, you mess it up.

The greatest evil in the world is the evil which is done by nobody, the evil which is done by all of us.

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

Life is like a play: it matters not how long it is, but how good it is.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things.

Never venture, never win!

Men are always more easily deceived when they are trying to deceive others.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world, one has to seem a fool, but be wise.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

I am not arguing for the rights of women but for the rights of humanity.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

The English working class is, after all, only a branch of the German working class.