Mark Twain Atheism Quotes & Sayings

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought. — Mark Twain

To get what you want help others get what they want — Zig Ziglar

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. — Henry Miller

This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet. — Mark Twain

Losing is like my ex-wife ... it's a b****, and it takes a bigger man than me to live with it. — Don Frye

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks. — Mark Twain

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know. — Mark Twain

One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading. — Agatha Christie

Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there's a supreme being? There's no proof of it. There's no harm in saying you're an atheist. It doesn't mean you treat people any differently. I live by the Golden Rule to do unto others, as you'd want to be treated.
I just simply don't believe in religion, and I don't believe necessarily that there's a supreme being that watches over all of us. I follow the teachings of George Carlin. George said he worshipped the sun. He was a fellow atheist. I'm in good company ... Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Charles Darwin. It's not like I'm not with good company and intelligent people. There have been some good, intelligent atheists who have lived in the world. — Jesse Ventura

Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so. — Mark Twain

Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag. — Mark Twain

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal. — Mark Twain

Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. - Wollof — Joseph Lallo

In high-performance teams, "the leaders managed the principles, and the principles managed the team. — Jim Highsmith

He picked up her gun. Pointed it at her. Pulled the trigger.
Isabet jumped like a startled lizard.
He handed the gun back to her. 'First tip. Get a new gun. As soon as a Ras Tiegan gun gets sand in it, it's useless. They don't work out here.'
Isabet's hand was trembling as she took the gun back. 'You seemed very certain of that.'
'Nyx unloaded it while we were arguing,' he said. 'If you want to keep up, you'll need to start paying attention. — Kameron Hurley

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it. — Mark Twain

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master. — Mark Twain

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction. — Mark Twain

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar. — Mark Twain

Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing. — Mark Twain

The Bible has noble poetry in it ... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that. — Mark Twain