Quotes about Mark Twain

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

The spirits of the dead hallow a house, for me.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Immaculate Conception, that if the Virgin would permit him to