Jan Davis

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
― Mark Twain

“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”
― Mark Twain

“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.”
― Mark Twain

“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