Voltaire
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”
“This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.”
“A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them.”
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
“At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.”
“Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.”
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”
“My husband gave me a necklace. It’s fake. I requested fake. Maybe I’m paranoid, but in this day and age, I don’t want something around my neck that’s worth more than my head.”
“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”