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A. Huxley  Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.  
A. J. Toynbee  Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents   [read rest of quote]
A. Mark Wells  The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.  
A. P. Gouthey  He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves.  
Abdul Baha  The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity  [read rest of quote]
Abraham Lincoln  When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.  
Abraham Lincoln  Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.  
Abraham Lincoln  Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... T  [read rest of quote]
Adela Rogers St. Johns  God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.  
Admiral Hyman Rickover  Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may sha  [read rest of quote]
Agathon  Even God cannot change the past.  
Agnes Repplier  Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.  
Albert Einstein  "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself   [read rest of quote]
Albert Einstein  "I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details  
Alexander Hamilton  A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.  
Alexandre Dumas  If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himse  [read rest of quote]
Alfred Jarry  God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.  
Andrew Young  Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.  
Andrew Young  Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.  
Andy Warhol  Two people kissing always look like fish.  
Anita Loos  On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stag  [read rest of quote]
Anthony Starr  Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.  
Anton Chekhov  People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.  
Archbishop William Temple  It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.  
Aristotle  The gods too are fond of a joke  
Arthur C. Clarke  It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him.  
Arthur Koestler  God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.  
Author Unknown  It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.  
Benjamin Disraeli  Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.  
Benjamin Franklin  God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.  
Bertrand Russell  Sin is geographical.  
Bertrand Russell  So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.  
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh  Jesus was a crackpot.  
Bible, James 2:19  You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - and shudder.  
Bob Stokes  The world is proof that God is a committee.  
Carl Jung  Religion is a defense against the experience of God.  
Carl Sagan  All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single lar  [read rest of quote]
Carl Sagan  Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowe  [read rest of quote]
Cato the Elder  I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to b  [read rest of quote]
Christopher Morley  A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.  
Churchill  The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialis  [read rest of quote]
Confucius  If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of  [read rest of quote]
Confucius  While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not kno  [read rest of quote]
Dale Carnegie  One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our ho  [read rest of quote]
Dr. Joyce Brothers  Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.  
Elbert Hubbard  Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff,  [read rest of quote]
Elias Canetti  Most religions do not make men better, only warier.  
Ellis Peters  Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the grat  [read rest of quote]
Emily Dickinson  They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.  
Emily Dickinson  Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without words <  [read rest of quote]
Fanny Burney  I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.  
Fred Allen  A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide t  [read rest of quote]
Fred Allen  Imitation is the sincerest form of television.  
Fred Allen  The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that h  [read rest of quote]
Friedrich Nietzsche  In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.  
Friedrich Nietzsche  Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.  
Friedrich Nietzsche  In heaven all the interesting people are missing.  
G.K. Chesterton  The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untri  [read rest of quote]
Gamel Abdel Nasser  The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid m  [read rest of quote]
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg  What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eye  [read rest of quote]
George Bernard Shaw  We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.  
George Bernard Shaw  It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.  
George Bernard Shaw  Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.  
George Gallup  I could prove God statistically.  
George Orwell  Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.  
George Sand  It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one gr  [read rest of quote]
George Santayana  Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the bett  [read rest of quote]
Gioacchino Rosini  How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.  
Groucho Marx  Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.  
H. L. Mencken  In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice   [read rest of quote]
H. L. Mencken  God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanc  [read rest of quote]
H. L. Mencken  Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business e  [read rest of quote]
H. L. Mencken  The worshiper is the father of the gods.  
H. L. Mencken  Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.  
H. L. Mencken  The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.  
H.G. Wells  Advertising is legalized lying.  
Hannah More, 1775  Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.  
Hans Konig  For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It g  [read rest of quote]
Harry Truman  Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a b  [read rest of quote]
Harry Truman  Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that  [read rest of quote]
Henry Louis Mencken  The only really happy folk are married women and single men.  
Herb Caen  The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.  
Herbert Hoover  What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God a  [read rest of quote]
Hervey Allen  Religions change; beer and wine remain.  
Hunter S. Thompson  A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God sing  [read rest of quote]
Immanuel Kant  Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and   [read rest of quote]
J. Krishnamurti  When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become  [read rest of quote]
J.D. McCoughey  God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place.  
Jack Paar  Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.  
Jackie Mason  By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in wh  [read rest of quote]
James Feibleman  A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.  
James Joyce  Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most dif  [read rest of quote]
James Madison  ... Religion ... [is] the basis and foundation of government ... before any man can be considered as  [read rest of quote]
Jean Anouilh  Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.  
Jean Baptiste Colbert  The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of fe  [read rest of quote]
Jean Rostand  My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.  
Jean Rostand  Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are a G  [read rest of quote]
Jesus Christ  What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?  
Jesus Christ  Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.  
Joan Kiser  The sins of the fathers are often visited upon the sons-in-law.  
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barrie  [read rest of quote]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.  
John Adams  We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morali  [read rest of quote]
John Ashcroft  Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal,  [read rest of quote]
John Cleese  I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes natu  [read rest of quote]
John Randolph  The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils,   [read rest of quote]
John Taylor  The kingdom of God or nothing.  
John von Neumann  Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of si  [read rest of quote]
Joseph Schiedler  I think contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.  
Kahlil Gibran  I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to p  [read rest of quote]
Kahlil Gibran  God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.  
Kahlil Gibran  You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your j  [read rest of quote]
Kahlil Gibran  Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to   [read rest of quote]
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu  I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.  
Lenny Bruce  Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.  
Lily Tomlin  Thank God kids never mean well  
Louise Erdrich  They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly tho  [read rest of quote]
Mahatma Gandhi  Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.  
Malcom Forbes  Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.  
Marcel Proust  The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.  
Marcel Proust  The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.  
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus  A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.  
Margot Asquith  What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.  
Margot Asquith  What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.  
Mark Twain  It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: fr  [read rest of quote]
Mark Twain  God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board  
Mark Twain  If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - a Christian.  
Mark Twain  I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm  [read rest of quote]
Mark Twain  In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards  
Mark Twain  Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was cert  [read rest of quote]
Marlene Dietrich  Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.  
Martin Terman  In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or  [read rest of quote]
Max Lucado  If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had  [read rest of quote]
Max Lucado  The journey to the cross began long before. As the echo of the crunching of the fruit was still soun  [read rest of quote]
Michel de Montaigne  Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.  
N. P. Willis  But he who never sins can little boast. Compared to him who goes and sins no more.  
Napoleon  Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.  
Nicholas Chamfort  The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.  
Oscar Levant  I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.  
Oscar Wilde  I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.  
Oscar Wilde  Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.  
Oscar Wilde  Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.  
Oscar Wilde  Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.  
Oscar Wilde  A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.  
Oscar Wilde  What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.  
Ovid  Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these  
Pastor Martin Niemoller  When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler at  [read rest of quote]
Paul Fussell  I find nothing more depressing than optimism.  
Paul Valery  God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.  
Paul Valery  God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his s  [read rest of quote]
Pete Seeger  Not everybody has to sing the melody.  
Peter Marshall  Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.  
Philip Wylie  God must hate common people, because he made them so common.  
Plato  He was a wise man who invented God.  
Quentin Crisp  The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.  
R. D. Laing  Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.  
Ralph Waldo Emerson  Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.  
Raymond Chandler  Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.  
Rebecca West  God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.  
Reverend Sean Parker Dennison  The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we  [read rest of quote]
Reverend W. Awdry  [Of the parallels between the railways and the church] both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth c  [read rest of quote]
Rich Hall, "Sniglets"  Lactomangulation, n.:
Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk carton so badly that one has t  [read rest of quote]
Robert Heinlein  History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a c  [read rest of quote]
Robert M. Pursig  I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha rests quite as  [read rest of quote]
Robert W. Sarnoff  Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.  
Robin Tyler  Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art.  
Ronald Reagan  America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning   [read rest of quote]
Saint Augustine  O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.  
Samuel Beckett  The major sin is the sin of being born.  
Simms  Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establis  [read rest of quote]
Simone Weil  All sins are attempts to fill voids.  
Sir Julian Huxley  Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshi  [read rest of quote]
Sir Richard F. Burton  The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself  
Sir Winston Churchill  MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of though  [read rest of quote]
Stendhal  All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.  
Steven Wright  If God dropped acid, would he see people?  
Storm Jameson  For what I have received, my the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not rec  [read rest of quote]
Su Shih  My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth grou  [read rest of quote]
Sugar Ray Robinson  Hurting people is my business.  
The Book of the Dead  Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi  [read rest of quote]
The Talmud  Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.  
Theodore Roosevelt  A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.  
Thomas Babington Macaulay  I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he   [read rest of quote]
Thomas Carlyle  If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner,  [read rest of quote]
Thomas Edison  All Bibles are man-made.  
Thomas Edison  I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future  [read rest of quote]
Thomas Jefferson  Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.  
Thomas Paine  "What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us  [read rest of quote]
Thomas Paine  Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous execution  [read rest of quote]
Thomas Szasz  If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.  
Thomas Szasz  Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when scien  [read rest of quote]
Thomas Szasz  If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.  
Tom Robbins  When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpec  [read rest of quote]
Tom Wolfe  A cult is a religion with no political power.  
Tom Wolfe  A cult is a religion with no political power  
Unknown  The wages of sin are unreported.  
unknown  May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm u  [read rest of quote]
Victor Borge  When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.  
Vilhjalmur Stefansson  What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falseho  [read rest of quote]
Voltaire  God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.  
Voltaire  I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And  [read rest of quote]
Voltaire  If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.  
Voltaire  England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.  
Voltaire  Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.  
W. H. Auden  No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.  
W. Somerset Maugham  People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.  
Will Rogers  The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.  
William Hale White  Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know o  [read rest of quote]
William Hamilton  It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It remin  [read rest of quote]
William James  Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.  
William Lloyd Garrison  I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I w  [read rest of quote]
William Ralph Inge  To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.  
William S. Buroughs  I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has ma  [read rest of quote]
Wilson Mizner  God help those who do not help themselves.