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
happiness impossible sanity
Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?
god romance sacred
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
god good-god
None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.
god healthy mind
We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor.
god bears burden
It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden
god hands vengeance
God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.
god heaven may
Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.
god children father
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.
god sorry lying
The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease.
god sin providence
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.
god men next
No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.
god men hands
God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.
god people suffering
If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."
god block men
Man proposes, but God blocks the game.