quotes and sayings about god

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911



California's a wonderful place to live - if you happen to be an orange. ~Author Unknown



Sometimes what we believe as coincidence is really just getting ourselves caught in an angel booby trap. ~Grey Livingston



A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work. ~Geoffrey Norman



All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death. ~Fran Lebowitz



The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb



Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?" ~Jack Handey



I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ~Boris Pasternak



There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897



In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave - with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble. ~Geoffrey L. Rudd, The British Vegetarian, September/October 1962



Sometimes it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams - assuming you don't drown in the metaphor. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~Dag Hammarskjold



Nothing is worth more than this day. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. ~Marlene Dietrich



Her needlework both plain and ornamental was excellent, and she might have put a sewing machine to shame. ~James Edward Austen-Leigh, about Jane Austen



He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. ~Dutch Proverb



Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal



One's only real life is the life one never leads. ~Oscar Wilde