“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun.”
Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
Variant: I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
“They say there's a heaven for those who will wait
Some say it's better but I say it ain't.
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
Sinners are much more fun…
And only the good die young.”
Only the Good Die Young.
Song lyrics, The Stranger (1977)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "They say there's a heaven for those who will wait
Some say it's better but I say it ain't.
I'd rather laugh with the …" by Billy Joel?
Billy Joel103
American singer-songwriter and pianist 1949Related quotes
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Lord Illingworth http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q=&quot;The+only+difference+between+the+saint+and+the+sinner+is+that+every+saint+has+a+past+and+every+sinner+has+a+future&quot;&pg=PA119#v=onepage, Act III <br class="br">A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
7 July 1838
1830s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s
Source: The Journals of Kierkegaard
“A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!”
Catherine Doherty (1896–1985) Religious order founder; Servant of God
Attributed to Catherine Doherty in Inflamed by Love by Jean Fox
Attributed
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)
Context: Oh come, please come, to the Poor Mouth Fair
Where the Saints kneel round in their underwear
And say out prayers that most need saying
For needful sinners who've forgotten praying;
And in every alcove and niche you spy
The living dead who envy the long since gone
Who never wished to die.
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Context: In every age man has been apt to dream uneasily, rolling from side to side, beating against imaginary bars, unless tired out he has sunk into indifference or scepticism. Religious minds prefer scepticism. The true saint is a profound sceptic; a total disbeliever in human reason, who has more than once joined hands on this ground with some who were at best sinners. Bernard was a total disbeliever in scholasticism; so was Voltaire.