Humorous Sayings

189 sayings found from the Modern era from 189 authors

All that is real is rational; and all that is rational is real.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1821
General

Absoluteness of power is the most seductive of all illusions.

— John Stuart Mill 1861
General

The greatest evil in the world is the evil which is done by nobody, the evil which is done by all of us.

— Hannah Arendt 1964
Food & Drink

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson 1844
Food & Drink

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

— Henry David Thoreau 1849
General

The English working class is, after all, only a branch of the German working class.

— Friedrich Engels 1870 (July 26th)
Work & Money

The government is not a babysitter.

— Ayn Rand 1959
General

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them, and psychiatrists collect the rent.

— Sigmund Freud Approx. mid-20th century
General

I would rather be whole than good.

— Carl Jung 1944
General

We are what we have been rewarded for being.

— B.F. Skinner 1969
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The world is a bad master, and it does not pay to serve it.

— William James 1867
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The oppressed know that they are oppressed, but they do not know the causes of their oppression.

— Paulo Freire 1968
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I often think that the only way to be happy is to be ignorant.

— Leo Tolstoy 1862
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Beauty will save the world.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869
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My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day. Procrastination is the thief of time.

— Charles Dickens 1850
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I do not want to be a man. I wish to be a woman, and to be as agreeable as a woman can be.

— Jane Austen 1801
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As the cat said to the rat, 'Don't make me laugh!'

— Victor Hugo 1862
General

Sleep is the most innocent creature and the most, therefore, defenseless. When it is done, when the night is past, it is gone like a dream.

— Franz Kafka 1910
Food & Drink

I am sorry that I have not been able to write to you more often, but I have been very busy, and I am also very lazy.

— James Joyce 1904
Self-Deprecating

I detest the actively good. It is the passively good who do the least harm.

— Virginia Woolf 1927
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