Subject: Beliefs (Page 31)

The public is always wrong.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart. and cannot make a good soup.

(1770 – 1827) German composer & pianist

You know, just once I’d like to hear a player say, ‘Yeah, we were in the game – until Jesus made me fumble; he hates our team.’

(1959 – ) American stand-up comedian

The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology; until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy.

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

Why should I talk to you?… I've just been talking to your boss.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

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

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

I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist

No matter how often the lie is shown to be false, there will still remain a percentage of people who believe it true.

There are no atheists in foxholes.

(1828-1882) English poet, illustrator, painter & translator

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

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

(1857 – 1927) Unitarian Universalist minister

My parents are Catholic, which means that they love Jesus and liquor and I don't think there's anything more Mexican than that.

(1974 – ) American stand-up comedian

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

(1867 – 1933) English writer

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor

A liberal is man who will give away everything he doesn’t own.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor

I’m an Atheist… thank God.

(1936 – 2005) Irish comedian

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

(1870 – 1916) British writer

Man was predestined to have free will.