Dean Inge Quotes

I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.

God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.

I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.

There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.

Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.

Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

After all, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds!

Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?

...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

Until Eve gave him the apple, Adam didn't even know he wasn't wearing underpants.

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

Instead of getting an iPad, I now use my iPhone with a giant magnifying glass attached to my face.

He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

And for an apple damn'd mankind.

I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.

But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny, who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.