Subject: Beliefs (Page 32)

As you grow older, you stand for more and fall for less.

Agnostic: A person who says that he knows nothing about God and, when you agree with him, he becomes angry.

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

(1810 – 1865) English writer

… you're so crooked that if you swallowed a nail you'd shit a corkscrew.

(1898 – 1979) British military commander

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

(1907 – 1953) American lawyer & scholar

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor

I'm part of the Jehovah's Witness Protection Program; I have to go door-to-door and tell everybody I'm somebody else.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

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

Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.

(1958 – ) American writer, comedian, satirist & actor

My mom’s Jewish and my dad’s Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside.

stand-up comedian, actor, writer & producer

The Jews celebrate Passover by eating unpalatable food to remind them what will happen to their people if they ever leave New York City.

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

If I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

My mom brought us to mass every Sunday – short for ‘massive head trauma’ that you get from your mother punching you in your little nine-year-old head every minute because you can’t sit still for anything that’s boring.

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

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

(1848 – 1930) British Conservative politician & statesman

God heals and the doctor takes the fee.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

First night, you get socks; second night, an eraser, a notebook – it’s a back to school holiday.

(1948 – ) stand-up comedian, actor, author & playwright

Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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

There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.

(1863 – 1935) British-born American writer, artist & illustrator