Humorous Sayings
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Whoever sticks his nose in every corner will get it stuck.
Medicine causes illness, Mathematics melancholy, and Theology sinful people.
Whoever enters into marriage, enters a cloister full of struggles.
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
The church is not a pen-house but a mouth-house.
These are the Scriptures which make fools of all the wise and understanding, and are open only to the small and simple, as Christ says in Matthew 11:25.
A simple layman armed with Scripture is to be believed above a pope or a cardinal without it.
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him n…
Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!
The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.
Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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.