Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Atwood

In Heaven, there are no debts - all have been paid, one way or another - but in Hell there's nothing but debts, and a great deal of payment is exacted, though you can't ever get all paid up. You have to pay, and pay, and keep on paying. So Hell is like an infernal maxed-out credit card that multiplies the charges endlessly.

Margaret Atwood

Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

Kinky Friedman

Whether your destination is heaven or hell, you always have to change planes in Dallas.

Ken Olsen

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

Lafcadio Hearn

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Oscar Wilde

Each of us has heaven and hell in him...

Lucretius

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

Mark Twain

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

Mark Twain

...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

Mark Twain

You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

Mark Twain

If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

Mark Twain

A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.

Marsha Norman

What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?

Marvin Gaye

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

Mark Twain

If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

Mark Twain

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

Mark Twain

Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

Nicholas Sparks

After all, if there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.

John Green

I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.

Ovid

Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.

Oswald Chambers

You can never argue anyone into the Kingdom of Heaven, you cannot argue anyone anywhere. The only result of arguing is to prove to your own mind that you are right and the other fellow wrong. You cannot argue for truth; but immediately Incarnate Truth is presented, a want awakens in the soul which only God can meet.

Michel de Montaigne

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

Mark Twain

There is no humor in heaven.

Mark Twain

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

Mark Twain

The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

Marianne Williamson

Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

Marilyn Manson

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

Freddy Fender

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

Francois Rabelais

If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.

George Washington

May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

George Washington

Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

George Santayana

Heaven is to be at peace with things.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.