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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)


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Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
VOLTAIRE Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does ex...
ELIZABETH KALES How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote...
S. G. TALLENTYRE Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.
JOHN MILTON If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to aboli...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Common sense is not so common. [Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.] - Voltaire (Franco...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. ...
S. G. TALLENTYRE And now, I am dying beyond my means. Sipping champagne on his deathbed
OSCAR WILDE And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]
OSCAR WILDE One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
N. B.: ...
S. G. TALLENTYRE One does not arrest Voltaire.
CHARLES DE GAULLE During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, ...
LYTTON STRACHEY In fact,” Cinder continued, “my understanding is that, under Kai—Emperor Kai—Kaito?” She r...
MARISSA MEYER The Boasting Traveler A man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his...
AESOP No man ever repented on his deathbed of being a Christian.
HANNAH MOORE Shocked? I consider Bob...
WALT WHITMAN God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIRE I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock ...
VOLTAIRE The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to complimen...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.
BERTRAND RUSSELL R...
CHARLES S. THOMAS I didn't realize I would be maybe researching quotes from Voltaire and Mussolini before this was ove...
MIKE LYNCH George walked into the room and looked at each of us in turn, ending with Thierry.
"Hey, boss,...
MICHELLE ROWEN Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all The other feigned to be. The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response."
Another few secon...
SARAH DESSEN But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Maybe they’re getting some bow-chicka-pow-wow.”
I looked at him. “Ew.”
He flashed ...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I was thinking we could get a picture of you holding a pitchfork or something. Maybe a big wooden cr...
STACIA KANE I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on ...
DANIEL TAMMET He was without any comforts of God — no feeling that God loved him — no
feeling that God pi...
ROBERT MURRAY MCCHEYNE No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.
PAUL TSONGAS And then I can feel what he feels. He’s waited such a long time for this moment. He loves how I fe...
CYNTHIA HAND A great moral shift has happened because of this trial ... whether he returns or not. I have no prob...
ARIEL DORFMAN So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER Because there are no guarantees.
No promises on time.
There is only this moment.
And ...
J. SAMAN An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
OSCAR WILDE A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to
be on my deathbed before I st...
LISA KLEYPAS Is he a good boy? (Cherise)
No, Mom, he’s Satan incarnate. In fact, once it’s over, we’re...
SHERRILYN KENYON There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; ...
MARTIN GARDNER I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do ...
CASSANDRA DUNN Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: t...
HUGO BALL I let my head fall forward into his shoulder, breathing in his scent. "Now what do we do?"

JESSICA SORENSEN I drew him in my world;
I write him in my lines,
I want to be his girl,
he was never ...
LANG LEAV The man you see here now, a priest, there's no way I would have ever imagined being Catholic or a pr...
DONALD CALLOWAY A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly ...
JOHN OLIVER HOBBES Need I point out that, despite the old saw about uneasy heads and crowns, it is nevertheless safer t...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is there any point asking what you're going to make me do on Sunday?'
'Not really.'
Okay. ...
MICHELLE HODKIN I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrol...
VOLTAIRE You are very harsh.'
'I have seen the world.
VOLTAIRE There was a man whose only son died of a sudden illness. He did not mourn for his son, nor was he sa...
LIEZI No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has
become his intere...
MATTHEW HENRY Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL We all feel for him. It's tragic that that happened at that time. It's a bad situation for him to be...
AL NIPPER He literally learned about it on his deathbed, ... He was so happy to hear this.
RICK FITZGERALD Now when you say staring, are you including yourself in this assessment? I recall you taking in the ...
STACEY O'NEALE Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as lon...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
FRANK A. CLARK We came this far with him, there's no point in giving up now. This would be big for him, to give to ...
KYLE KANNENBERG I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies...
OSCAR WILDE I'll be your family now," he says.
"I love you," I say. (....)
He stares at me. I wait wi...
VERONICA ROTH Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.

(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN He came in every time we asked him to, no questions asked. I've known him three years now. I know hi...
EVAN MALINGS I found this quote more relevant today than it was yesterday: 'Man is born to live in the convulsion...
SHANE JOSEPH Any day above ground is a good one.
A woman's beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in ...
DON WILLIAMS, JR. TAKE A STAND RIGHT NOW! BECAUSE tomorrow IS THE ONLY DAY OF THE WEEK THAT NEVER COMES!!
PHILIP T. M. A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and re...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respec...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN I've heard my father say that the man is to be the priest, the provider, and the protector of hi...
BENJAMIN WATSON He was just about to move when he felt her kiss his shoulder and his chest. She was curled up agains...
SAMANTHA CHASE I just think that he is making good decisions. He is getting confidence and we feed off him. Ben is ...
BILL COWHER I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies...
OSCAR WILDE Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of...
VICTOR HUGO He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, ...
MICHAEL ENDE Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the e...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I'm a fucking idiot.
No, he was a man in love with a woman who meant the entire universe...
SHERRILYN KENYON He's very confident with his game right now. He's on a good little run right now, so he should be al...
MANUEL VILLEGAS Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
ALEXANDER POPE To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its dut...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU I feel his arm
Lightly
Over me.
He takes one of my outstretched hands.
Draws i...
STASIA WARD KEHOE Let no man's deathbed be a futon.
DEMETRI MARTIN It is for this
reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in
time alon...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Y...
TERESA OF ÁVILA I think that will all go away. There was a tendency to overpass early in his career, but he's making...
CRAIG MACTAVISH If this were a fairy tale, this would be the part where the fishboy appears and Diana shoots him thr...
HANNAH MOSKOWITZ She leaned forward, her gaze so intense that Helen wanted to look away. “And I love him more for i...
ELIZABETH HOYT Eventually, I would love to be on my deathbed and looked at as an icon. Right now I'm still at t...
KESHA Eragon went to see the dragon for the first time since it had spoken to him. He approached apprehens...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Mais c'est renfantillage - this is childishness!' we heard de Grandin pant as we closed in and sough...
SEABURY QUINN ROBBER, n. A candid man of affairs. It is related of Voltaire that one night he and some traveling c...
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