Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way. — 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
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