Quote

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

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
American
Damnation
Give
Persuade
Best
Infant
Giving
Weary
Trying
Bear
Long
Atheism
Time
Bears
Taken
Presbyterians

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.
Mark Twain
Image
Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.
Mark Twain
Image
The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.
Mark Twain
Image
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people and not anywhere else can these be had.
Mark Twain
Image
Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.
Mark Twain
Image
Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.
Mark Twain
Image
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water but everybody likes water.
Mark Twain
Image
Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.
Mark Twain
Image
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain
Image
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
Mark Twain
Image
Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.
Mark Twain
Image
When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.
Mark Twain
Image
Too much is just enough.
Mark Twain
Image
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain
Image
It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.
Mark Twain
Image
Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.
Mark Twain
Image
To be satisfied with what one has that is wealth.
Mark Twain
Image
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
Mark Twain
Image
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
Mark Twain
Image
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain