# Millôr Fernandes' best quotes

Brazil's sharpest humour in short lines, most of them from «Millôr Definitivo: A Bíblia do Caos» (1994), each with its book.

- 13 votes · 15 items
- Aug 30, 2025 · Caio Barbosa Carvalho
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## Top 12

1. **Digress, always.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Papáverum Millôr (1967); a pun on «devagar e sempre» (slow and steady).
2. **I've been watching and found that not everything is honey in the life of bees.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A Bíblia do Caos (1994).
3. **Brazil's history was written by the Portuguese. Hence the accent.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A Bíblia do Caos (1994).
4. **Brazil, country of the future. Always.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A Bíblia do Caos (1994), on Stefan Zweig's old motto.
5. **Blessed are the one-eyed, for they only see half.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A Bíblia do Caos (1994).
6. **The only difference between madness and mental health is that the former is far more common.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — O Livro Vermelho dos Pensamentos de Millôr.
7. **In the name of «coverage», some journalists would even enter Troy inside the Greeks' horse.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A Bíblia do Caos (1994).
8. **Football is the opium of the people. And media drug trafficking.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Millôr Definitivo: The Bible of Chaos (1994).
9. **Whoever kills time isn't a murderer. He's committing suicide.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 30 Anos de Mim Mesmo.
10. **Noah's biggest mistake was not killing the two cockroaches that got on the ark.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — A Bíblia do Caos (1994).
11. **Power is a reverse chameleon: everyone takes on its colour.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Bíblia do Caos (1994).
12. **I've seen people tired of love, of work, of politics. I've never met anyone sincerely tired of money.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Bíblia do Caos (1994).
13. **Men are not equal. They're just made the same way.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Bíblia do Caos (1994).
14. **Mummies are the balance of humanity.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Millôr Definitivo: The Bible of Chaos (1994).
15. **Brazil: proof that geography is not destiny.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Millôr Definitivo: The Bible of Chaos (1994).

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