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• It’s hard to kill a bad thing.

  Topics in Irish Proverbs

  Tags in Superstition

• A good heart never went to hell.

  Topics in Irish Proverbs

  Tags in Superstition

• Pulling the devil by the leg is a bad grip.

  Topics in Irish Proverbs

  Tags in Superstition

• Speak to the Devil and you’ll hear the clatter of his hooves.

  Topics in Irish Proverbs

  Tags in Superstition

• A dimple in the chin, your living comes in; a dimple in the cheek, your living to seek.

  Topics in English Proverbs

  Tags in Superstition
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  The general root of superstition [is that] men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

  Francis Bacon

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Superstition
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  What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?

  Rowan Atkinson

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Atheism, Superstition

• Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Fear, Wisdom

  Tags in Conquer, Superstition, Cruelty

• The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Superstition

• The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

  George Herbert

  Topics in Religion, Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Atheism, Superstition

• I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

  Gil Gerard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Superstition

• I don’t know concretely if it’s due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

  Stu Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Superstition

• I have only one superstition… Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

  George Herman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Superstition

• Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatura.

  Theophrastus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Superstition

• Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

  Garrett Fort

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scientific, Fact, Superstition

• Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

  Edmund Burke

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Superstition

• The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Superstition, Christian

• This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Association, Superstition, Illumination

• Man’s mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

  John Calvin

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Superstition, Idolatry, Mankind, Mind, Men

• Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Superstition, Perseverance