"We must laugh at man to avoid..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
More by Napoleon Bonaparte
“The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.”
“Without cavalry, battles are without result.”
“It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.”
More on Human Nature
“The most difficult thing about being humble is not being able to brag about it.”
“Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.”
“The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.”
More on Humor
“The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”
“My staff was very excited for Brisvegas. When I arrived, they advised I needed some XXXX.”
“If I wanted to see Jonah Hill masturbate at a pool party, I'd go to one of Jonah Hill's pool parties.”