671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools.

If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.

Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.

I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter.