Author of quotes: Mark TWAIN. Page 2

I am grieved to hear his name mentioned among the great authors, because those have a nasty habit of giving tips.

Several times I was told compliments, and each time I was unhappy - I felt that said enough.

Leads us into trouble is not what we don't know something... trouble leads To knowledge, which we consider to be "true" but which in fact is wrong.

When you read the Bible, and more surprised at the ignorance of God than his omniscience.

Of all the animals only man is truly cruel. Only man can inflict pain for their own pleasure.

If you pick up a starving dog, feed and caress her, she won't bite you; this is its fundamental difference from man.

If God is, as suggested, he needs to be unhappy all the universe. He watches every hour billions of created beings, experiencing untold suffering. He also knows about the suffering which they have yet to move. It is possible to say about him: "as Unhappy as God"

The clergy and the Church destitute people spreading ignorance, superstition and servility, and then deify yourself for your noble work, which consists in the fact that they are handing out crumbs of assistance, extracting them not from their own coffers and pockets of the poor whom they have created.

Herodotus said: "Very few things happen on time, others do not happen. Conscientious historians will correct these shortcomings."


Quote in English

In some cases, the curse gives even greater relief than prayer.

"Classic" is a book that is praised and not read.

A person takes in the bosom of the Church for what he believes, and cast out for what he knows.

The complete absence he [God] of any of those qualities, which could grace a God, to inspire respect for him, cause awe and worship, the real God, the true God, the Creator of the vast universe is no different from all the other available gods. Every day he clearly shows that the does are not interested in neither man nor other animals - except to torture them, to destroy and extract from this study some entertainment, while making everything possible to his eternal and unchanging monotony, he was not boring.

Do we know that he [God] is a just, benevolent, kind, meek, merciful, compassionate? No. We have no evidence that he has at least one of these qualities, and at the same time, every coming day brings us hundreds of thousands of evidence - not evidence, but conclusive evidence that he has none of them.