Quotes from Mark Twain
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
- Mark Twain
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
- Mark Twain
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
- Mark Twain
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
- Mark Twain
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
- Mark Twain
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
- Mark Twain
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.
- Mark Twain
Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
- Mark Twain
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
- Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
- Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain