Subject: Beliefs (Page 40)

I am not a man of faith, but my wife is.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I wanted to do a show about feminism… but my husband wouldn’t let me.


If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

I’ll not listen to reason… reason always means what someone else has got to say.

(1810 – 1865) English writer

We must believe in free will… we have no choice.

(1902 – 1991) Polish Jewish American author

I hope God speaks English; if I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

(1856 – 1924) 28th U.S. president & politician

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist

There are two kinds of statistics; those you look up and those you make up.

(1886 – 1975) American fiction writer

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

(1848 – 1930) British Conservative politician & statesman

Everyone’s a pacifist between wars; it’s like being a vegetarian between meals.

(1938 – ) American journalist, teacher, lecturer & pacifist

God is not dead but alive and working on a much less ambitious project.

The public is always wrong.

Unitarian: One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

A liberal is a conservative who’s been arrested; a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.

(1949 – ) American lawyer & writer

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

B’nai Briss

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

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

(1863 – 1947) automobile industrialist

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