Subject: Beliefs (Page 10)

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

Church: Man’s effort to keep a roof over God’s head.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

I would not want Jimmy Carter and his men in charge of snake control in Ireland.

(1916 – 2005) American politician & poet

If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

(1920 – ) Hungarian writer

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

(1902 – 1991) Polish Jewish American author

Can’t we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive.

(1958 – ) comedian, actress & television host

Evil is live spelled backwards.
Corollary: If it feels good, don't do it.

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

A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card.


I like the Ten Commandments, but there’s a problem with the ninth one; it should be: ‘Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s ox – except in Scrabble."

(1975 – ) Irish comedian, author, musician, actor & playwright

I wore flowers in my hair and meditated for hours on end. I was finding God all over the place… He kept ditching me.

(1938 – ) American actor

I’m saying I can’t afford to make no donations to no Catholic charities. If you need the money that bad, wire the Pope, he’s got more money than God.

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

If only God would give me some clear sign! … like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

(1922 – 1995) English novelist & poet

He doesn’t have much of a reputation or so I’ve heard.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist

Beware of the half truth… you may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

Pray, pray very much; but beware of telling god what you want.

It is common sense to take a method and try it… if it fails, admit it frankly and try another; but above all, try something.

(1882 – 1945) 32nd U.S. president

My shrink told me it was pointless to believe in myself.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor