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- The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
- A. Whitney Brown, "The Big Picture"
- ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line."
- Tom Robbins (1936 - ), _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.
- We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- It was just a job. It wasn't any special interest in consumer affairs. I needed a paycheck and the Attorney General said that I would be best to go down there, because he knew I was anti-consumer.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), talking about his job as Chief investigator, consumer protection division of the Indiana Attorney General's office from 1970-1971
- You have a part-time job, and that's better than no job at all.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), after the manager of the Burger King had said that the jobs offered were part-time minimum wage jobs which didn't pay enough to live on, and that "It's hard to find people who want to actually show up
- I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.
- Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
- Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.
- Stephen Wolfram
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