Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
bible reading christianity
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
real literature littles
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
dream live-your-dreams your-dreams
Don't dream your life, but live your dream
interesting advantage
Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.
regret hero simple
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
spiritual atheist common-humanity
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
love law sausage
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.
lying half truth-is
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
truth
All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.
stupid father men
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.
men religion monkeys
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
inspirational life god
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
death sunday people
Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?
blood law omission
So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is." Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.