I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?'
Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Quoted in 'The Wit of Martin Luther' and other sources.
1530s-1540s (Table Talk)
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