Humorous Sayings
939 sayings found from the Ancient era
The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.
The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.
Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.
A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.
Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.
Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even an elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.
My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.
What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do.
Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
Do not steal victory.
Hephaestion is a friend of Alexander, while Krateros is a friend of the king.
Veni, vidi, vici.
Iacta alea est.
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.