Humorous Sayings

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit!

These men, Qin Shi Huang declared, claimed to be sorcerers. If they really had magic powers, then they could bring themselves back to life.

Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel.

There was no other like me, no other king who could stand before me, for I am the chosen of Ra, the son of Osiris, the living Horus on earth.

If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

The minnows swim about so freely, following the openings wherever they take them. Such is the happiness of fish.

But among the blessed immortals uncontrollable laughter went up as they saw Hephaestos bustling about the palace.

I want to tell you something but good taste. Restrains me.

What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.

O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it—this is knowledge.