But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? – 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
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. – Mark Twain
The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. – Mark Twain
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. – Mark Twain
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work. – Mark Twain
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. – Mark Twain
In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race — never quite sane in the night. – Mark Twain
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. – Mark Twain
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. – Mark Twain
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. – Mark Twain
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. – Mark Twain
In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. – Mark Twain
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. – Mark Twain
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. – Mark Twain
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. – Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. – Mark Twain
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. – Mark Twain
