--- title: "8 Cradle Quotes By Robert Green Ingersoll" description: "8 Cradle quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll. Plus more from Robert Green Ingersoll and more Cradle sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1b/robert-green-ingersoll-361_another-world_why-should-we-postpone-our-joy-to-anothe_383471.png" --- > [Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/why-should-we-postpone-our-joy-to-another-world-let-us-get-all-we-can/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1b/robert-green-ingersoll-361_another-world_why-should-we-postpone-our-joy-to-anothe_383471.png) > [Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/custom-meets-us-at-the-cradle-and-leaves-us-only-at-the-tomb/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cc/robert-green-ingersoll-361_cradle_custom-meets-us-at-the-cradle-and-leaves_822406.png) > [There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/there-is-no-harmony-between-religion-and-science-when-science-was-a/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b7/robert-green-ingersoll-361_athlete_there-is-no-harmony-between-religion-and_869736.png) > [Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/heresy-is-a-cradle-orthodoxy-a-coffin/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17e/robert-green-ingersoll-361_coffin_heresy-is-a-cradle-orthodoxy-a-coffin-11_1169488.png) > [Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/every-cradle-asks-us-whence-and-every-coffin-whither-the-poor/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c85/robert-green-ingersoll-361_answers_every-cradle-asks-us-whence-and-every-co_1689563.png) > [I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/i-would-not-for-my-life-destroy-one-star-of-human-hope-but-i-want-it/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c5/robert-green-ingersoll-361_atheism_i-would-not-for-my-life-destroy-one-star_2087605.png) > [Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/love-is-the-only-bow-on-life-s-dark-cloud-it-is-the-morning-and-the-2/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a5/robert-green-ingersoll-361_air_love-is-the-only-bow-on-life-s-dark-clou_2114709.jpg) > [The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/the-few-have-said-think-the-many-have-said-believe-the-first-doubt/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb2/robert-green-ingersoll-361_believe_the-few-have-said-think-the-many-have-sa_2286278.png) ## Other authors on Cradle ## More by Robert Green Ingersoll > [Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/our-hope-of-immortality-does-not-come-from-any-religions-but-nearly/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/if-with-all-the-time-at-my-disposal-with-all-the-wealth-of-the/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/honest-investigation-is-utterly-impossible-within-the-pale-of-any/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/i-read-the-other-day-an-account-of-a-meeting-between-john-knox-and/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/shakespeare-has-done-far-more-for-the-world-than-the-bible/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/every-man-who-expresses-an-honest-thought-is-a-soldier-in-the-army-of/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/liberty-is-the-condition-of-progress-without-liberty-there-remains/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/it-has-been-said-that-a-man-of-genius-should-select-his-ancestors/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/when-passions-and-appetites-are-stronger-than-the-intellect-men-are/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/in-spite-of-my-surroundings-of-my-education-i-had-no-love-for-god/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/the-combined-wisdom-and-genius-of-all-mankind-cannot-possibly/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/calvin-founded-a-little-theocracy-modeled-after-the-old-testament-and/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/i-do-not-believe-in-loving-enemies-i-have-pretty-hard-work-to-love-my/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/what-is-it-that-distinguishes-you-and-me-from-the-lower-animals-from/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) > [The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/the-literature-of-many-lands-is-rich-with-the-tributes-that-gratitude/) [Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cradle/robert-green-ingersoll/#itemlist", "name": "8 Cradle Quotes By Robert Green Ingersoll", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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. 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