Famous Quotes
56 Quotations with Erasmus.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy i ...
- 2. Erasmus: 'If a person were to try stripping the disguises from actors while they play a s ...
- 3. Desiderius Erasmus: War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
- 4. Desiderius Erasmus: The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
- 5. Desiderius Erasmus: In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. ...
- 6. Desiderius Erasmus: A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
- 7. Desiderius Erasmus: As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in lif ...
- 8. Desiderius Erasmus: Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tires ...
- 9. Desiderius Erasmus: By a Carpenter mankind was made; and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remad ...
- 10. Desiderius Erasmus: Concealed talent brings no reputation.
- 11. Desiderius Erasmus: Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
- 12. Desiderius Erasmus: Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is ...
- 13. Desiderius Erasmus: Fools are without number.
- 14. Desiderius Erasmus: For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people ...
- 15. Desiderius Erasmus: Fortune favors the audacious.
- 16. Desiderius Erasmus: Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
- 17. Desiderius Erasmus: Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
- 18. Desiderius Erasmus: Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist witho ...
- 19. Desiderius Erasmus: He does good to himself who does good to his friend.
- 20. Desiderius Erasmus: Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an ent ...