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Quotes from Mark Twain

These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.
~ Mark Twain
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company
~ Mark Twain
These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.
~ Mark Twain
We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.
~ Mark Twain
Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?
~ Mark Twain
The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.
~ Mark Twain
God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.
~ Mark Twain
Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.
~ Mark Twain
...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.
~ Mark Twain
Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.
~ Mark Twain
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
~ Mark Twain
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
~ Mark Twain
It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.
~ Mark Twain
Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
~ Mark Twain
Be good and you'll be lonesome
~ Mark Twain
Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!
~ Mark Twain
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
~ Mark Twain
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
~ Mark Twain
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
~ Mark Twain
Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.
~ Mark Twain
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
~ Mark Twain
There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.
~ Mark Twain
Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.
~ Mark Twain
Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.
~ Mark Twain