Humorous Sayings

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Whoever sticks his nose in every corner will get it stuck.

— Martin Luther Undated
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Medicine causes illness, Mathematics melancholy, and Theology sinful people.

— Martin Luther Undated
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Whoever enters into marriage, enters a cloister full of struggles.

— Martin Luther Undated
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If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

— Martin Luther Undated
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The church is not a pen-house but a mouth-house.

— Martin Luther 1530s-1540s (Table Talk)
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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.

— Martin Luther c. 1545 (Preface)
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A simple layman armed with Scripture is to be believed above a pope or a cardinal without it.

— Martin Luther Undated, but reflects his Reformation stance
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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…

— Martin Luther 1530s-1540s (Table Talk)
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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!

— Martin Luther 1530s-1540s (Table Talk)
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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.

— Martin Luther Undated
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Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

— Martin Luther Undated
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You are the worst rascal of all the rascals on earth!

— Martin Luther Undated, from his polemical writings
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In lying fashion you ignore what even children know.

— Martin Luther Undated, from his polemical writings
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I would not smell the foul odor of your name.

— Martin Luther Undated, from his polemical writings
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You people are more stupid than a block of wood.

— Martin Luther Undated, from his polemical writings
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The Holy Spirit unveiled the Scriptures for me in this tower at the lavatory.

— Martin Luther Undated, from 'Table Talk'
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The pope, a nemesis, was his 'dearest little ass-pope.'

— Martin Luther Undated, from his polemical writings
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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.

— Martin Luther Undated, from 'Table Talk'
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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.

— Martin Luther Undated
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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.

— Martin Luther Undated
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