"It is bad luck to be superstitious."
A reverence for life does not require one to respect nature's obvious mistakes.
Always yield to temptation, for it may not pass your way again.
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
Be self-reliant and your success is assured.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.
If it's more than you need, it's greed.
If you continually give you will continually have.
Mad: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence
Man's horizons are bounded by his vision.
Monday:  In Christian countries, the day after the football game.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall.
Expecting life to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian. -anon
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.  -Anon
"Who will the Anti-Christ be? I don't know... Of course, he'll be Jewish."  -Jerry Falwell
"The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity." -Ronald Reagan
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. -Napoleon Bonaparte
A Puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. -G. K. Chesterton
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -Einstein
If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? -Benjamin Franklin
The Creator is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. -H. L. Menken
Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement. -Seneca
Man is the only animal that has the true religion- Several of them.  -Mark Twain
"I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state."  -George W. Bush
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.  When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. -Dora Camara
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality -Dante
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." -Abraham Lincoln
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -Galileo Galilei 
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." -George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire (1694-1778)
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." -Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." -Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"Black holes are where God divided by zero." -Steven Wright
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -Umberto Eco
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means." -Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"God, please deliver me from your followers!" -Bumper Sticker
"Vote early and vote often." -Al Capone (1899-1947) 
"The gods too are fond of a joke." -Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday." -Woody Allen (1935-) 
"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me." -Charles William Stubbs 
"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing." -Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy." -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis." -Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God. 
Going to church doesn't make one a Christian any more than going to a garage makes one a mechanic.
There is not one shred of evidence to support the notion that life is serious.
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will go to the stars..." -Dr. Isaac Asimov
Blessed are those who know how to think for themselves, truth will speak to them.
It's much more important to be kind than right. Kindness improves standard of life. So does laughter. However, righteousness can kill.
A religious war is an adult version of a fight over who has the best imaginary friend. -anon
Why do the folks who get worked up over "one nation under God" always forget about "with liberty and justice for all"?
"Politicians beg the public to turn their eyes to Heaven -- in the hope they then won't notice the long arm of privilege reaching into their wallets."   - Bill Moyers
Cult: (n) A small, unpopular religion.                                Religion: (n) A large, popular cult.
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Winston Churchill
"Flying planes into buildings was a faith-based initiative."  -Bill Maher
The act of censorship is always worse than whatever is being censored. Always.
Bush claims that "Democracy respects the rights and religions of all peoples," yet he pushes legislation in the U.S. which is clearly evangelistically Christian and disdains anything non-Christian.  Hypocrisy begins at home...
Faith cannot move mountains.  However, drills can go through them...
"But really let's face it, all other days bow down to the 25th: Christmas. It's the only religious holiday that's also a Federal holiday. That way Christians can go to their services and everyone else can stay home and reflect on the true meaning of Separation of Church and State."  -Samantha Bee, The Daily Show
"Religion alters your thinking ability. You sacrifice your reasoning power." -Dr.  Jack Kevorkian
"It's part of nature.  You're all going to die.  What's wrong with it?  You just go into nothingness.  Big deal.  You came from nothingness, [sarcastically] WAS IT SO BAD?" -Dr. Jack Kevorkian