Quotes by Desiderius Erasmus

"The desire to write grows with writing."

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen."

"To know nothing is the happiest life."

"Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another."

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."

"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."

"War is sweet to those who have not experienced it."

"It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst."

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them."

"Your library is your paradise."

"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"