Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
Only the Good Die Young.
Song lyrics, The Stranger (1977)
Variant: I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
Only the Good Die Young.
Song lyrics, The Stranger (1977)
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)
Charles Péguy (1873–1914) French poet, essayist, and editor
"Un Nouveau théologien" (1911)
Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)
“The sinner's ego is crude
that of the saint refined,
distilled. Careful! It may
be more poisonous!”
Frederick Franck (1909–2006) Dutch painter
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 21
“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
“Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.”
Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)