A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you don't know what this means. It means go to heaven for happiness go to hell for anger. I hope you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. — 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
Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Image
