Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“A thing too silly to be said can be sung.” — Pierre-Augustine Caron de Beaumarchais Copy Share Image
Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words. — Jeremy Jordan Copy Share Image
Only when you know the nuances of a language can you sing a song well. — Asha Bhosle Copy Share Image
The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song. — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
