Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.

- Woody Allen

The idea that there is a god is a farce. I know this to be true because the devil told me.
~J. Thompson Lurye

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

- Mark Twain

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Sir Richard Steele

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
- Harlan Ellison

"Dear Christ, if I don't have You, I cannot cooperate with You!"

- C.S. Lewis (in a letter)

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

- Aeschylus

"If you fail once you're a failure... and if the world says that you're not good enough, get a second opinion".

-nick vujicic

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Originally posted by Brodie C.:
nick vujicic

I met Nick when he preached at my parish in Bel Air, Bel Air Pres. Pretty amazing guy.

"I do believe in God, just not yours."

- Gene Roddenberry

"Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell. Or what would be considerably worse, going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism."

--ISAAC ASIMOV

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Originally posted by embroiderer:
"I expect death to be nothingness..."

"If I believed that, I would be terrified."

- Doug Spaulding

"Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."

- Ambrose Bierce

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"Once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again, because you're harmonizing with a greater power."

- George Harrison

"I never advocated that players not eat bananas. I said, they shouldn't eat unripe bananas, as I have no objection to the fruit when it is ripe. I have some very good friends in the banana business and I would not care to say something about their business which is not true."

- Knute K. Rockne
Notre Dame, Indiana

"If you ever come to Boston after I am out of jail, I have a damned good mind to buy you a drink. Two, if you can stand the gait. Will you libate with me?"

--Chales Ponzi (from where the term PONZI Scheme came forth), responding to a comment in TIME magazine, and now directed to the editor of TIME magazine (1931)

"Comedy has to be based on truth! You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end."

--Sid Caesar (who played Mr. Shumway in Disney's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit)