I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
Voltaire

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Voltaire

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Voltaire

I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Voltaire

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Voltaire

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
Voltaire

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
Voltaire

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
Voltaire

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
Voltaire

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Earl Nightingale

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
Dwight D. Eisenhower