Humorous Sayings

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

Please pray for me. I need it, because work is hard!

All living beings are miserable because of their own actions.

What goes up must come down.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

To understand the universe, you must understand the language in which it's written. And that language is mathematics.

The love of experiment and the patient observation of nature are the two great qualifications for a naturalist.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

It is not often that a man has the opportunity to be useful to his fellow citizens without any personal risk.

The value of pi is more than 3 10/71 and less than 3 1/7.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

We could not understand how it was that the best scientists could not fly a machine. We thought that they must be working on the wrong principle.

We are not interested in the fact that the machine can do well, but in the fact that it can do badly.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

We are a way for the universe to know itself.

I'm often asked, 'What is the meaning of life?' I don't know, but I think that the search for meaning is a good meaning to have.

Chimpanzees have taught me that the difference between us and them is not as big as we once thought.

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what to do with it was a moral problem for the world, not for us.