Quote

We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries it is only when we set out to discover the secret of God that our difficulties disappear.

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
Secret
Mysteries
Made
Difficulties
Men
Disappear
Discover
Difficulty
Infinite
Mystery
Trouble
Solving

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Mark Twain
Image
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain
Image
The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power we have no other.
Mark Twain
Image
Be good and you will be lonely.
Mark Twain
Image
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
Image
Be good and you'll be lonesome
Mark Twain
Image
The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.
Mark Twain
Image
Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.
Mark Twain
Image
...heaven for climate, and hell for society.
Mark Twain
Image
There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.
Mark Twain
Image
I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!
Mark Twain
Image
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
Image
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain
Image
It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.
Mark Twain
Image
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.
Mark Twain
Image
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
Mark Twain
Image
His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
Mark Twain
Image
Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.
Mark Twain
Image
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
Image
Good wine needs no bush a jug is the thing.
Mark Twain