Subject: Beliefs (Page 29)

I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.

(1964 – ) comedian, political satirist, writer & television host

Never mess up an apology with an excuse.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

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

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

Someone certainly has a high opinion of their opinion.

(1959 – ) American actor

Some of ours [umpires] is so crooked that they can lay in a berth only when the train’s making a curve.

(1885 – 1933) columnist & writer

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

(1864 –1945) Anglo-Scottish socialite, author & wit

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

(1848 – 1930) British Conservative politician & statesman

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ … it is a mere formality; it doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no, you’re going to get it anyway.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Nothing is so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Raise him a Luferan if you want, raise him a Norman with 7 wives, a holy roller, a Seventh Day Adventurer

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

Helping the Retarded To Know God

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

(1878 – 1968) American author

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

It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden.

If I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you.

(1879 – 1974) film producer