Quotes by Voltaire

God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.