Subject: Beliefs (Page 11)

Can’t we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive.

(1958 – ) comedian, actress & television host

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

I’m Catholic in the same way, that if a cow was born in a tree, it’s a bird!

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

I would not want Jimmy Carter and his men in charge of snake control in Ireland.

(1916 – 2005) American politician & poet

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

(1915 – 1987) American football player and coach

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

(1922 – 1995) English novelist & poet

 Statistics always remind me of the fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.

college football coach

… you're so crooked that if you swallowed a nail you'd shit a corkscrew.

(1898 – 1979) British military commander

The mightiest of weapons is truth…. and everyone knows you're not permitted to bring a weapon into a government building.


If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

(1863 – 1947) automobile industrialist

Anyone who says the truth shall set you free has never been to traffic court.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

People have the persona that all Texans wear cowboy hats.

Unitarian: One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle; I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."

(1910 – 1997) Albanian–born Indian Roman Catholic nun

The truth is more important than the facts.

(1867 – 1959) architect, interior designer, writer & educator

Pop up your hand if you like participating in market research.


When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong – or absolutely right.

(1863 – 1923) French playwright

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet