Quote

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

Mark Twain

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
Aphorist
Author
Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Teacher
Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
Wife
Wives
Almost
Instincts
Moral
Permit
Religion
Instinct
Natural
Eight
Sultan
Doe
Hundred
Bigamy
Drink
Koran
Amount
Amounts

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.
Mark Twain
Image
The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.
Mark Twain
Image
It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.
Mark Twain
Image
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Mark Twain
Image
Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.
Mark Twain
Image
I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.
Mark Twain
Image
We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.
Mark Twain
Image
Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
Mark Twain
Image
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
Mark Twain
Image
In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.
Mark Twain
Image
I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly but their wives had grown old. These were good women it is very wearing to be good.
Mark Twain
Image
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
Mark Twain
Image
What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.
Mark Twain
Image
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure at least the pain is the biggest end of it.
Mark Twain
Image
I said nothing of the sort.
Mark Twain
Image
The average man don't like trouble and danger.
Mark Twain
Image
I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.
Mark Twain
Image
All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.
Mark Twain
Image
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
Image
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.
Mark Twain