Subject: Beliefs (Page 20)

It is a curious thing… that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

(1903 – 1966) English writer

I worship the quicksand he walks in.

(1925 – 2007) humorist & columnist

I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

The Catholics have an interesting view of sex; it is disgusting, amoral and filthy and you should save it for one you love.

(1957 – ) American actor, comedian & filmmaker

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I’m saying I can’t afford to make no donations to no Catholic charities. If you need the money that bad, wire the Pope, he’s got more money than God.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

The more ridiculous a belief system, the higher the probability of its success.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

(1944 – ) American author & activist

We are born naked, wet, and hungry; then things get worse.

I’m opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

(1863 – 1947) automobile industrialist

To the French, lying is simply talking.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.

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

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

A conservative is one who is opposed to the things he is in favor of.

(1856 – 1915) writer, publisher, artist & philosopher

As you grow older, you stand for more and fall for less.

If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again; it was probably worth it.

He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way.

professional football player & coach