Subject: Beliefs (Page 24)

Science: An orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be the facts.

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

(1946 – ) American stage & screen actress

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

(1946 – ) filmmaker, actor & writer

Spiritual is the word people use when they mean they want to be covered when they die but they’re not getting up early on a Sunday.

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

I think that people who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor

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

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

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he’d be a drama critic.

(1928 – ) playwright

Our loss is their loss.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

He will even tell a lie when it is not convenient to.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.

A witness shall not bear falsies against thy neighbor.

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

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

A bunch of money-grubbin', greenhouse-gassing, seal-clubbing, oil-drilling, Bible-thumping, missile-firing, right-to-life-ing, lethal-injecting hypocrites, whose idea of a good time is strapping a dead panda to a Lincoln Navigator and running over everybody in the gay parade.

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

God always has another custard pie up His sleeve.

(1943 – 2010) English actress

Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.

The sheer immensity of the human self as envisioned by the world's religions is awesome.

(1919 – ) American religious studies scholar

That politician is so crooked he can hide behind a corkscrew.

Life in Lubbock, Texas taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell; the other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth, and you should save it for someone you love.

(1945 – ) American country/folk musician & song writer

Birth Control is Sinful in the Christian Marriages and also Robbing God of Priesthood Children!!

He would not blow his nose without moralizing on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

(1903 – 1974) English intellectual, literary critic & writer