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
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.
religion atheism fickle
To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
christian religious religion
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
rain weather religion
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
heaven religion scare
A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.
religion fables tradition
[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.
religious religion littles
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.
atheist believe religion
In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.
people religion sacred-things
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
eight wife religion
The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.