Humorous Sayings

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

A horse is simply a horse.

Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.

O what a lean cow! it is not fit to be killed: give it fodder until it gets fat.

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

Consider your origin: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Through me the way to the dolorous city; Through me the way to eternal pain; Through me the way among the people lost.

Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.

O human race, born for flight to heaven, why do you fall for a breath of wind?

The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.

Love, that in gentle heart is quickly learned, seized him for the fair form that was ta'en from me; And still the mode offends me.

From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.

The deepest hell is reserved for those who betray their friends.

Nature has made me a lover of beauty, and not of gain.

The divine power, the supreme wisdom, and the primal love.

The greatest gift that God in his bounty bestowed on creation was the freedom of the will.