Humorous Sayings
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No sin withers the soul more quickly than laughter.
It is always better to be diligent, for he who toils with honor dies content, while he who is lazy sleeps with the diligent man's wife.
Save a moment each day by leaving your trousers on while you relieve your bladder.
He who dines on human meat, shall never want for things to eat.
An old young man will be a young old man.
A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
To be content, look backward on those who possess less than yourself, not forward on those who possess more. If this does not make you content, you don't deserve to be happy.
The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself in being watered and putting forth leaves, tho' it never produced any fruit…
Instead of falling to the floor, as we expected, it flew across the room till it struck the ceiling, where it fluttered awhile, and finally sank to the floor.
I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? I cannot soon give a solution to these question…
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly a…
Science advances one funeral at a time.
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is fam…
Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
No, I certainly do not believe in this superstition. But you know, they say that it does bring luck even if you don't believe in it!