Mark Twain

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

Mark Twain

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible.

Mark Twain

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Mark Twain

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

Mark Twain

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Mark Twain

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Mark Twain

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart – a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

Mark Twain

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Mark Twain

Never learn to do anything: if you don’t learn, you’ll always find someone else to do it for you.

Mark Twain

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.

Mark Twain