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 people atheism
Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.
ignorance religion atheism
Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.
religion atheism deities
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.
religion atheism fickle
To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
religion atheism impossible
Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.
fall character atheism
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
church-choir atheism forgotten
The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.
earthquakes views atheism
This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.
christian atheism savages
Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.
dog atheism would-be
Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.
atheism slave reason
Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.
wind iron atheism
Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.
imagination atheism demonstration
Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.
fear atheism may
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.