Thank God I'm an athiest

[jpgray]

Post a famous quote, if you want. If you don't, well you really have no business in this thread, do you?

[skygazer]

1. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.

Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

- Groucho Marx

[Lost-in-FL]

2. As we know...

There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.


Donald Rumsfeld
Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing

[Kajsa]

4. OMG!

And to think he served four more years
after that!

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Thanks for sharing this!!

[sammythecat]

14. I don't think I ever heard the whole statement before

That is just so clear, but not quite complete.

I know about the known unknown unknowns, everybody does, but what about the unknown unknowns that we don't know about? The unknown unknown unknowns. Huh? What about them Secretary Smarty Pants? x(

That is really nutty. I have a folder for quotes. This is definitely a keeper.

[Kajsa]

3. 'To err is human, to forgive divine'

This saying is from “An Essay on Criticism,” by Alexander Pope.

[trof]

5. It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.

It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain

[Kali]

11. I like that.

Might put it as my sig line at some point.

[trof]

25. First heard it from one of my journalism profs.

It was my first class on 'Reporting'.
ALWAYS get the facts.
ALWAYS go to the source.
NEVER take second and third hand info for the 'truth'.
"Everybody knows...NOTHING!"

It's a good policy in everyday life too.

[tigereye]

6. Dorothy Parker at the Algonquin Hotel

when asked why she was drinking at the Hotel, instead of working at the New Yorker, said, " someone was using the pencil."

[SOteric]

7. I've been too fucking busy - or vice versa.

Dorothy Parker

[sammythecat]

8. "Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination."

I don't know who said this. Sounds like a Noel Coward type thing, but, who knows. In any case, there's a lot of truth there.

[KG]

9. 'I have everything under control, except my excesses' - KG

a quote made famous locally by me. :hi:

[Kali]

10. ...

:spray:


me too - I say shit like that out loud

[EstimatedProphet]

12. "I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini"

Robert Benchley

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. Voltaire:

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

[zingaro]

15. "You are your choices." ~Seneca

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. How many is a Brazillion?

[qnr]

21. "How many is 3?"

[genie_weenie]

17. "Thank God I'm an atheist"

~jpgray, 18-Mar-2007

So, poignant, so powerful, so moving. :evilgrin:

[swag]

18. Thanks God I'm a Cuntry Boy

[jpgray]

19. I prefer Heino's "zyl frames" period.

[Colobo]

20. Quote by Miguel de Unamuno

"Truth? Truth is perhaps something terrible, something unbearable, something deadly; simple people could not live with it."

Beautiful indeed.

[Unvanguard]

22. On that theme, his short story "Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr"

is one of the most interesting commentaries on religion and life ever written.

[Colobo]

23. Yep, the quote is from one of the exchanges between Manuel and Lazaro

That book changed my life and helped me become the agnostic I am today.

[BlueJazz]

24. The only thing I'm not confused about is the fact that I'm Confused.

Runner up:

Rudeness is the little person's imitation of power

[terrya]

26. Oscar Wilde:

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

[ashling]

27. I'm glad I don't like spinach . . . (Clarence Darrow)

because if I liked it I would eat it. . . and I just hate it.

[Mad_Dem_X]

28. Don't know who said it originally

"Reality is for people who lack imagination."

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

29. For no good reason, my friends dad said:

"I feel more like I do now than I did when I got here."

I just like the ring of it.

[tk2kewl]

30. The governator:

"I think gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."

[kwassa]

31. I would never belong to a club that would have someone like me as a member

Groucho said that, or something like that.

[trof]

32. "No matter where you go, there you are."

[tigereye]

37. one of my favorites!

:thumbsup:

[Connonym]

33. “If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"”

Will Rogers

[AllegroRondo]

34. "Lord, protect me from you followers"

[wildhorses]

35. sir thomas brown--

'think it more satisfactory to live richly, than to die rich.'

[leftofthedial]

36. - Clarence Darrow

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."

[RetroLounge]

38. "Don't knock Masturbation...

...it's sex with someone I love."

Woody Allen

RL

[Deep13]

39. "All that is gold does not glitter. ...

Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost."

Tolkien

[Deep13]

40. *delete*

[Deep13]

41. "If only all of Rome had but one neck."

Caligula

[Deep13]

42. "Well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal."

Nixon

[datasuspect]

43. "The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread."

Blaise Pascal

[redqueen]

44. How famous?

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused, but on a higher level.

[jpgray]

45. Famous enough not to kill my thread dead

:P

[redqueen]

55. I am the suck.

:cry:

:P

[MonkeyFunk]

46. grrr....

"athiest"

May Gdo strike you down.

[baldguy]

47. "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"

[sarge43]

48. "I aim to misbehave." Capt Mal Reynolds n/t

[progressoid]

49. "Change is inevitable. Change is constant."

Benjamin Disraeli

[recoveringdittohed]

50. "It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool,

than to open it and remove all doubt." I have seen this quote attributed to Mark Twain by many and to Abraham Lincoln by some.

[Deep13]

51. "If I knew what brand of whiskey he drinks...

...I might send a barrel to some other generals."

Lincoln responding to compalaints about Grant's intemperance.

[Deep13]

52. "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra

[Deep13]

53. "I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party." Howard Dean.

[Deep13]

54. "Say baby, why don't you put down that pipe and get my pipe up?"

Bill O'Reilly, Those Who Trespass

[Dukkha]

56. "fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me —

you can't get fooled again."

[NC_Nurse]

57. "The path of true love never does run smooth."

-Shakespeare

[Orsino]

58. "I contend that we are both atheists...

...I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." --Stephen Henry Roberts