Subject: Beliefs (Page 32)

I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

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

God is good, but never dance in a small boat.

It takes two to lie, Marge. One to lie and one to listen.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

It is a secret in the Oxford sense; you may tell it to only one person at a time.

(1905 – 1992) English civil servant & philosopher

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

(1943 – ) U.S. agriculture commissioner, columnist, activist & author

Let's face it, show business is run by 2,000 Jews and Oprah, and she lives next door to Spielberg, which makes her Jewish by association.

(1965 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor, director & author

Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Beneath this smooth stone by the bone of his bone – Sleeps Master John Gill; – By lies when alive this attorney did thrive, – And now that he's dead he lies still.

… the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

(1888 – 1957) English writer

Jesus loves you… He’s not ‘in love’ with you.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.

(1907 – 1989) American writer

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

(1857 – 1927) Unitarian Universalist minister

The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist

Fruit… it's just God showing off… “Look at all the colors I know!”

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

What’s a cult…it just means not enough people to make a minority.

(1925 – 2006) American film director, screenwriter & producer

O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul.

(1823 – 1892) French philosopher & historian