While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.