Quotes by Twain, Mark

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more >>

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diam >>

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he mad >>

Quotations about Nations

I don't even know what street Canada is on. >>

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind. >>

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at >>

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

Twain, Mark