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Mark Twain Quotes

Mark Twain quotes

American Author, Writer November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910

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What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Stay away from people who belittle your ambition, small people..."
Stay away from people who belittle your ambition, small people do that, but great people make you like to be great! Mark Twain
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. Mark Twain
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience. Mark Twain
Then the old man got to cussing, and cussed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cussed them all over again to make sure he hadn't skipped any, and after that he polished off with a kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable parcel of people which he didn't know the names of, and so called them what's-his-name, when he got to them, and went right along with his cussing. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Comparison is the death of joy."
Comparison is the death of joy. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is..."
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory."
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly..."
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself."
Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself. Mark Twain
There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'. Mark Twain
We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Man - a figment of God's imagination."
Man - a figment of God's imagination. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and..."
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that. Mark Twain
There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled. Mark Twain

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