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
religious blessed imagination
Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.
religious men heaven
Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!
religious men forgiving
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.
religious america speech
In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
christian religious party
Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.
religious blessing neighbor
If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.
religious men kind
Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion
religious atoms proof
I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.
religious prayer powerful
We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's God...Our illogical God is all-powerful in name, but impotent in fact; the Great Spirit is not all-powerful, but does the very best he can for his injun and does it free of charge
religious firsts ass
Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned
religious children two
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement
religious political enemy
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.
religious disrespect persons
Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.
sarcastic lying hats
You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.