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- England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Life resembles the banquet of Damocles; the sword is ever suspended.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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