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
christian son blood
There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled.
war lynching names
There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.
brother heart men
It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.
atheist character angel
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.
strong fighting land
There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.
sleep men giving
Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.
love love-is madness
Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.
liars three kind
There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians
laughing matter jokes
A German joke is no laughing matter.
grief loss years
When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.
secret progress
The secret of making progress is to get started.
party men thinking
Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side
love character winning
Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.
religious second-chance hands
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination