Subject: Beliefs (Page 5)

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

(1912 – 2003) newspaper columnist

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

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

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

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

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

Hell is other people.

(1905 – 1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright & novelist,

 Statistics always remind me of the fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.

college football coach

Reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.

(1962 – ) American political satirist, writer, television host & comedian

Christian: A man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Don't squat with your spurs on.

If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using “an outside agency” and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.

British golf writer & commentator

The person with the least expertise has the most opinions.

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

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

He couldn't ad-lib a fart after a baked-bean dinner.

(1925 – 2005) television host

Age is a function of mind over matter; if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

(1906 – 1982) baseball player

If God wanted us to believe in him, he’d exist.

(1958 – 2006) English radio performer, stand-up comic & writer

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

(1922 – 2007) American novelist

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

(1874 – 1962) American industrialist, lawyer & diplomat

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

(1926 – ) English sports commentator