Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that! — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away)… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Church still prizes the Moral Sense as man's noblest asset today, although the Church knows God had a distinctly poor opinion… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is full of interest, it has noble poetry in it and some clever fables and some blood drenched history, some good… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loyalty… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“spiritual wants and instincts are as various in the human family as are physical appetites, complexions, and features, and a man is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Each of us knows it all, and knows he knows it all—the rest, to a man, are fools and eluded. One man… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If Christ were here now, there is one thing he would not be a Christian. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so."" — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share