Humorous Sayings

5,479 sayings found from the Modern era

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

— Dwight Eisenhower Unknown
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

— Dwight Eisenhower Unknown
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

— Dwight Eisenhower Unknown
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How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

— Dwight Eisenhower Unknown (post-presidency)
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Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

— Dwight Eisenhower Unknown
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes yo…

— Dwight Eisenhower November 8, 1954
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

— Charles de Gaulle Unknown
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

— Charles de Gaulle Unknown
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

— Charles de Gaulle Unknown
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China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

— Charles de Gaulle Unknown
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

— Charles de Gaulle Unknown
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

— Charles de Gaulle Unknown
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Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?

— Charles de Gaulle 1965
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Have you ever seen a dictator on a run-off ballot?

— Charles de Gaulle 1965
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I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

— Charles de Gaulle Unknown (post-1946)
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One does not arrest Voltaire.

— Charles de Gaulle 1968
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

— Charles de Gaulle Unknown
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A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!

— Benito Mussolini Unknown
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

— Benito Mussolini Unknown
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Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

— Benito Mussolini Unknown
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