Subject: Beliefs (Page 38)

1. In dealing with their “own” problems, faculty members are the most extreme conservatives 2. In dealing with “other” people's problems, they are the world's most extreme liberals.

God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

(1942 – ) humorist & radio broadcaster

The world is a place that’s gone from being flat to round to crooked.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

Secret: What we tell everybody to tell nobody.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

If God Loves Me, Why Can’t I Get My Locker Open?

One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

(1884 – 1966) French author

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

(1961 – ) Canadian–American actor, voice actor, author, producer & activist

Jesus was a Jew, yes, but only on his mother’s side.

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

If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.

(1907 – 1989) American writer

A man who calls bullshit fertilizer.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor

When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else.

(1940 – 1993) composer, guitarist, record producer & film director

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

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

(1906 – 1982) baseball player

Y’know, if those pews reclined and the priests gave the Raiders scores, I’d go to church every Sunday.

(1961 – ) American comedian, actor & talk show host

At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies; with experience, he covers up with better ones.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father’s religion, if they can find out what it is.

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist

A witness shall not bear falsies against thy neighbor.

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

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician

More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer