Quotes about Mark Twain
A home without a cat —and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat —may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
- Mark Twain
The two testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The old one gives us a picture of these people's deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.
- Mark Twain
The quality of mercy . . . is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest. it becomes The thronèd monarch better than his crown. Merchant of Venice
- Mark Twain
Well," Winston said, "a few of the others are proclaiming 'faith' to be the only answer. Considering our present location, I considered it particularly bold of Mark Twain to loudly refer to their assertion as brownnosing.
- Andy Andrews
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
- Mark Twain
Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.
- Mark Twain
A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
- Mark Twain
Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness.
- Mark Twain
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
- Mark Twain
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.
- Mark Twain
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- Mark Twain
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
- Mark Twain