Martin Luther

Whoever smells it first, out of him it crept.

Devil, if you want to eat me, start from behind.

If God has no sense of humor, I don't want to go to Heaven.

One should praise women, whether it be true or false.

Whoever sticks his nose in every corner will get it stuck.

Medicine causes illness, Mathematics melancholy, and Theology sinful people.

Whoever enters into marriage, enters a cloister full of struggles.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

The church is not a pen-house but a mouth-house.

These are the Scriptures which make fools of all the wise and understanding, and are open only to the small and simple, as Christ says in Matthew 11:25.

A simple layman armed with Scripture is to be believed above a pope or a cardinal without it.

Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

You are the worst rascal of all the rascals on earth!

In lying fashion you ignore what even children know.

I would not smell the foul odor of your name.

You people are more stupid than a block of wood.

The Holy Spirit unveiled the Scriptures for me in this tower at the lavatory.