200 definitions
Voltaire: top 200 quotes
200 definitions
Death (n.) is what some patients do merely to humiliate the doctor.
God (n.) is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
God (n.) is an entity who, if he did not exist, he would have to be invented.
God (n.) is one whom believing in is impossible, and not to believe in him is absurd.
God (n.) is a thing which, if he has created us in his image, then we have more than returned the compliment.
History (n.) is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
History (n.) is the lie commonly agreed upon.
History (n.) is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.
History (n.) is nothing but a lie that everyone agrees on.
History (n.) is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.
History (n.) never repeats itself, but man always does.
History (n.) is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.
History (n.) is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
History (n.) is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
History (n.) is the study of the world's crime.
History (n.) is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
Success (n.) is not achievable in any of the arts unless you have the devil in you.
Success (n.) is difficult to achieve in this world. It is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Morality (n.) is singular, just as there is only one geometry.
Wine (n.) is the divine juice of September.
William Shakespeare (n.) is a savage with sparks of genius which shine in a horrible night.
William Shakespeare (n.) is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in london and canada.
William Shakespeare (n.) is an enormous dunghill.
Imitation (n.) is the most perfect originality.