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
average believes certain consists man religion thinks wishes
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain
men religion want
What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.
heaven religion lasts
Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!
men luck religion
I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.
funeral religion world
Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.
biblical men religion
I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.
moon religion sun
I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.
boys weather religion
We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.
people mind religion
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
soul religion world
One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.
children religion age
In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.
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.
political religion church
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.