Mark Twain Quotes About Culture

• Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

  Mark Twain

  Fake People, Truth, Inspirational Life

• The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Taken, Biblical

• All generalizations are false, including this one.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Truth, Inspirational Life

  Attributed in "A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense" by Mark Twain, Seven Stories Press, (p. 61), January 4, 2011.

• I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.

  Mark Twain

  Disappointment, Father, Believe

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.288, Univ of California Press

• A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Men, Thinking

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.218, 谷月社

• Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'

  Mark Twain

  Tired, Might, Bills

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.221, 谷月社

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