Mark Twain Quotes, Christian Quotes, Country Quotes

A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Christian Quotes , Country Quotes

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes

Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Couple Quotes , Whales Quotes

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Funny Quotes , Clever Quotes

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Motivation Quotes , Integrity Quotes

I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Natural Quotes , Clock Quotes

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Pessimistic Quotes , Pessimist Quotes

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Accountability Quotes

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Funny Quotes , Witty Quotes

In truth I care little about any party's politicsthe man behind it is the important thing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Party Quotes , Men Quotes

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Light Quotes

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Believe Quotes

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Numbers Quotes , Remember Quotes

We are all alike, on the inside.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Equality Quotes

The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Christian Quotes , Humble Quotes

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Regret Quotes , Hero Quotes

There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Christian Quotes , Country Quotes

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Sarcastic Quotes , Germany Quotes

The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Death Quotes , Rich Quotes

The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Optimistic Quotes , Race Quotes