--- title: "4 Silly Quotes By Voltaire" description: "4 Silly quotes by Voltaire. Plus more from Voltaire and more Silly sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81f/voltaire-173_backbiting_do-you-think-that-men-have-always-massac_347308.jpg" --- > [Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/do-you-think-that-men-have-always-massacred-each-other-as-they-do/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81f/voltaire-173_backbiting_do-you-think-that-men-have-always-massac_347308.jpg) > [Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/our-priests-are-not-what-a-silly-populace-supposes-all-their-learning/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ae/voltaire-173_credulity_our-priests-are-not-what-a-silly-populac_720558.png) > [The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/the-only-way-to-comprehend-what-mathematicians-mean-by-infinity-is-to/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/voltaire-173_contemplating_the-only-way-to-comprehend-what-mathemat_3014443.png) > [If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/if-it-s-too-silly-to-be-said-it-can-always-be-sung/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/425/voltaire-173_ifs_if-it-s-too-silly-to-be-said-it-can-alwa_3205279.png) ## Other authors on Silly - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-w-bush-38036.jpg) George W. Bush 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/silly/george-w-bush/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-groucho-marx-39563.jpg) Groucho Marx 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/silly/groucho-marx/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/silly/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-oscar-wilde-72846.jpg) Oscar Wilde 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/silly/oscar-wilde/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-jane-austen-47065.jpg) Jane Austen 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/silly/jane-austen/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cassandra-clare-21529.jpg) Cassandra Clare 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/silly/cassandra-clare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-lord-chesterfield-61094.jpg) Lord Chesterfield 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/silly/lord-chesterfield/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-al-walser-10195.jpg) Asli 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/silly/asli/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-veronica-roth-93385.jpg) Veronica Roth 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/silly/veronica-roth/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-margaret-mitchell-63442.jpg) Margaret Mitchell 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/silly/margaret-mitchell/) - [Lemony Snicket 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/silly/lemony-snicket/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-jack-kerouac-45445.jpg) Jack Kerouac 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/silly/jack-kerouac/) ## More by Voltaire > [In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/in-every-province-the-chief-occupations-in-order-of-importance-are/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/fanaticism-to-which-men-are-so-much-inclined-has-always-served-not/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [History is the study of the world's crime](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/history-is-the-study-of-the-world-s-crime/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/we-re-neither-pure-nor-wise-nor-good-we-do-the-best-we-know/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/it-is-with-books-as-with-men-a-very-small-number-play-a-great-part/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/meslier-was-the-most-singular-phenomenon-ever-seen-among-all-the/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/every-sensible-man-every-honorable-man-must-hold-the-christian-sect/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/being-unable-to-make-people-more-reasonable-i-preferred-to-be-happy/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/when-his-highness-sends-a-ship-to-egypt-does-he-trouble-his-head/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/madness-is-to-think-of-too-many-things-in-succession-too-fast-or-of/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/god-gave-us-the-gift-of-life-it-is-up-to-us-to-give-ourselves-the/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/it-is-not-inequality-which-is-the-real-misfortune-it-is-dependence/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/providence-has-given-us-hope-and-sleep-as-a-compensation-for-the-many/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/men-use-thought-only-to-justify-their-wrong-doings-and-employ-speech/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/work-spares-us-from-three-evils-boredom-vice-and-need/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/silly/voltaire/#itemlist", "name": "4 Silly Quotes By Voltaire", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? 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