Humorous Sayings
50 sayings found from the Early Modern era
I'm like a ripe stool and the world's like a gigantic anus, and we're about to let go of each other.
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
groped in the dark, misled by many an ignis fatuus, but nature has a weak side, if we can only find it out.
Eat to please yourself, but dress to please others.
Did you make a convert of the obstinate antivaxinist at Lello?
What's the idea? We blow the brains out of anybody who sticks his head into our sleigh, huh?
He wished he had his POCKETS full, too.
Little bird, if you don't sing I will wait for you to sing.
I would rather lose all my lands than be king of heretics.
I'm extremely glad for you, Messire. Great tidings! Now you can read Cervantes in the original.
Dogs, would you live forever?
My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
I am sick when I do look on thee.
His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command.
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.