Mark Twain Quotes

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.

It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite – sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament – Meek and gentle? […]

You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient “people say”. In all my seventy-two years and a half I have never come across such another ass as this human race is.

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence – stuffed and in a museum.

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

Of the commandments, only a single one of the 10 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner and saint, scholar and ignoramus, Christian and savage are alike loyal.

Children have but little charity for one another’s defects.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and a bother.

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don’t you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain’t any real difference between triplets and a insurrection.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.