"To write is to wage war"  ...Voltaire

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ---Voltaire

"Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe."--Voltaire

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ~ Voltaire, French Philosopher (1694-1778)

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.---- Voltaire

 I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. --Voltaire

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. --Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. --Voltaire

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. --Voltaire

The best way to become boring is to say everything. --Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. --Voltaire

All history is little else than a long succession of useless cruelties. --Voltaire

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces. --Voltaire

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short on: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. --Voltaire

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies. --Voltaire

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace. --Voltaire

Common sense is not so common. --Voltaire

The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it. --Voltaire

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. --Voltaire

Prejudice is the reason of fools. --Voltaire

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. --Voltaire

To hold a pen is to be at war. --Voltaire

What is not in nature can never be true. --Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. --Voltaire

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. --Voltaire

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it. --Voltaire

Chance is a word void of sense, nothing can exist without a cause. --Voltaire

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. --Voltaire

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.  --Voltaire

A witty saying proves nothing.  --Voltaire

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.  --Voltaire

The best is the enemy of the good.  --Voltaire

The road to the heart is the ear.  --Voltaire

One owes respect to the living, to the dead one owes only truth.  --Voltaire

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.  --Voltaire

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.  --Voltaire

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.  --Voltaire

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.  --Voltaire

It is with books as with men - a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.  --Voltaire

All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference.  --Voltaire

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.  --Voltaire

I envy the animals' two things: their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.  --Voltaire

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.  --Voltaire

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms. --Voltaire

As Voltaire said, "The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity."