Humorous Sayings

When one is painting one does not think.

I don't know any painter who thinks Giovanni Baglione is a good painter. His Resurrection is clumsy – the worst he's done.

All true knowledge of God is born of obedience.

I am not afraid of giving too much trouble to God. He is able to bear it.

What goes up must come down.

To understand the universe, you must understand the language in which it's written. And that language is mathematics.

It is not often that a man has the opportunity to be useful to his fellow citizens without any personal risk.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

It is not the eye that sees, but the soul that sees through the eye.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am a Christian.

The earth belongs in usufruct to the living; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

I will make a difference, and I will be worthy of my place.

I like to praise and to reward, but I detest to punish.

I can conquer the world, but I cannot conquer my own stubbornness.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by epigrams.

The life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.

Men are always more easily deceived when they are trying to deceive others.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world, one has to seem a fool, but be wise.