--- title: "15 Adam Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "15 Adam quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Adam sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/991/mark-twain-22_a-good-thing_how-lucky-adam-was-he-knew-when-he-said_1440147.png" --- > [How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/how-lucky-adam-was-he-knew-when-he-said-a-good-thing-nobody-had-said/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/991/mark-twain-22_a-good-thing_how-lucky-adam-was-he-knew-when-he-said_1440147.png) > [Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/adam-did-not-want-the-apple-for-the-apple-s-sake-he-wanted-it-because/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26f/mark-twain-22_adam_adam-did-not-want-the-apple-for-the-appl_997674.png) > [Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/adam-was-the-author-of-sin-and-i-wish-he-had-taken-out-an/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7be/mark-twain-22_adam_adam-was-the-author-of-sin-and-i-wish-he_595587.png) > [Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/adam-was-not-alone-in-the-garden-of-eden-however-and-does-not-deserve/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6dd/mark-twain-22_adam_adam-was-not-alone-in-the-garden-of-eden_3235571.png) > [What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/what-a-good-thing-adam-had-when-he-said-a-good-thing-he-knew-nobody/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/727/mark-twain-22_adam_what-a-good-thing-adam-had-when-he-said_1639409.png) > [Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/adam-and-eve-had-many-advantages-but-the-principal-one-was-that-they/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e0/mark-twain-22_adam_adam-and-eve-had-many-advantages-but-the_988910.jpg) > [Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/let-us-be-grateful-to-adam-he-cut-us-out-of-the-blessing-of-idleness/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/579/mark-twain-22_adam_let-us-be-grateful-to-adam-he-cut-us-out_112256.png) > [Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/adam-was-but-human-this-explains-it-all-he-did-not-want-the-apple-for/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52f/mark-twain-22_adam_adam-was-but-human-this-explains-it-all_443055.png) > [It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-was-not-that-adam-ate-the-apple-for-the-apple-s-sake-but-because/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/676/mark-twain-22_adam_it-was-not-that-adam-ate-the-apple-for-t_3149024.png) > [Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/whoever-has-lived-long-enough-to-find-out-what-life-is-knows-how-deep/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/mark-twain-22_adam_whoever-has-lived-long-enough-to-find-ou_1200262.png) > [Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/very-well-then-where-do-we-arrive-where-do-we-arrive-with-our-respect/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfa/mark-twain-22_adam_very-well-then-where-do-we-arrive-where_2462437.png) > [Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/adam-and-eve-entered-the-world-naked-and-unashamed-naked-and-pure/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b2/mark-twain-22_acquire_adam-and-eve-entered-the-world-naked-and_1345637.jpg) > [“To proceed with the Biblical curiosities. Naturally you will think the threat to punish Adam and Eve for disobeying was of course…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/to-proceed-with-the-biblical-curiosities-naturally-you-will-think-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/769/mark-twain-22_adam_to-proceed-with-the-biblical-curiosities_1654141.png) > [“Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/adam-is-fading-out-it-is-on-account-of-darwin-and-that-crowd-i-can/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/faa/mark-twain-22_adam_adam-is-fading-out-it-is-on-account-of-d_2490862.png) > [“Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of serpents in those days.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/presently-a-serpent-sought-them-out-privately-and-came-to-them/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/561/mark-twain-22_adam_presently-a-serpent-sought-them-out-priv_2217608.png) ## Other authors on Adam ## More by Mark Twain > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sing-like-no-one-s-listening-love-like-you-ve-never-been-hurt-dance/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-you-had-made-the-acquiring-of-ignorance-the-study-of-your-life-you/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-creator-sat-upon-the-throne-thinking-behind-him-stretched-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-s-easy-to-quit-smoking-i-ve-done-it-hundreds-of-times/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-never-wrong-to-do-the-right-thing/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-accustomed-to-american-food-and-american-domestic-cookery-would/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-nothing-training-can-t-cannot-do-nothing-is-above-its-reach/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-never-write-metropolis-for-seven-cents-because-i-can-get-the-same/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-higher-animals-get-their-teeth-without-pain-or-inconvenience-man/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/as-far-as-i-can-see-italy-for-fifteen-hundred-years-has-turned-all/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/begin-with-the-determination-to-succeed-and-the-work-is-half-done/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/many-public-school-children-seem-to-know-only-two-dates-1492-and-4th/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-we-could-imagine-such-a-man-that-is-a-man-who-could-invent-the-fly/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/you-perceive-now-that-these-things-are-all-impossible-except-in-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/lord-save-us-all-from-a-hope-tree-that-has-lost-the-faculty-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adam/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "15 Adam Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "How lucky Adam was. 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It would have been…” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/whoever-has-lived-long-enough-to-find-out-what-life-is-knows-how-deep/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/mark-twain-22_adam_whoever-has-lived-long-enough-to-find-ou_1200262.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/mark-twain-22_adam_whoever-has-lived-long-enough-to-find-ou_1200262.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/mark-twain-22_adam_whoever-has-lived-long-enough-to-find-ou_1200262.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam…” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/very-well-then-where-do-we-arrive-where-do-we-arrive-with-our-respect/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfa/mark-twain-22_adam_very-well-then-where-do-we-arrive-where_2462437.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfa/mark-twain-22_adam_very-well-then-where-do-we-arrive-where_2462437.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfa/mark-twain-22_adam_very-well-then-where-do-we-arrive-where_2462437.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Very well, then, where do we arrive? 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The convention mis-called \"modesty\" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/adam-and-eve-entered-the-world-naked-and-unashamed-naked-and-pure/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b2/mark-twain-22_acquire_adam-and-eve-entered-the-world-naked-and_1345637.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b2/mark-twain-22_acquire_adam-and-eve-entered-the-world-naked-and_1345637.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b2/mark-twain-22_acquire_adam-and-eve-entered-the-world-naked-and_1345637.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. 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Adam and Eve were punished and that crime finds apologists unto this day.The sentence of death was executed.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/to-proceed-with-the-biblical-curiosities-naturally-you-will-think-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/769/mark-twain-22_adam_to-proceed-with-the-biblical-curiosities_1654141.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/769/mark-twain-22_adam_to-proceed-with-the-biblical-curiosities_1654141.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/769/mark-twain-22_adam_to-proceed-with-the-biblical-curiosities_1654141.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To proceed with the Biblical curiosities. 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('The Refuge of the Derelicts' collected in Mark Twain and John Sutton Tuckey, The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings (1980), 340-41. - 1980)”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/adam-is-fading-out-it-is-on-account-of-darwin-and-that-crowd-i-can/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/faa/mark-twain-22_adam_adam-is-fading-out-it-is-on-account-of-d_2490862.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/faa/mark-twain-22_adam_adam-is-fading-out-it-is-on-account-of-d_2490862.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/faa/mark-twain-22_adam_adam-is-fading-out-it-is-on-account-of-d_2490862.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. 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So they ate it, which was quite natural, for man is so made that he eagerly wants to know; whereas the priest, like God, whose imitator and representative he is, has made it his business from the beginning to keep him from knowing any useful thing.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/presently-a-serpent-sought-them-out-privately-and-came-to-them/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/561/mark-twain-22_adam_presently-a-serpent-sought-them-out-priv_2217608.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/561/mark-twain-22_adam_presently-a-serpent-sought-them-out-priv_2217608.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/561/mark-twain-22_adam_presently-a-serpent-sought-them-out-priv_2217608.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of…” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adam/mark-twain/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adam/mark-twain/", "name": "Adam Quotes by Mark Twain", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adam/mark-twain/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/991/mark-twain-22_a-good-thing_how-lucky-adam-was-he-knew-when-he-said_1440147.png" }, "description": "15 Adam quotes by Mark Twain. 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