“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXI
Following the Equator (1897)
Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
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Mark Twain637
American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“When God made man she was practicing.”
Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
Source: Cat on the Scent
“God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer
The Garden, ii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Fear first made gods in the world.”
Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.
Source: Thebaid, Book III, Line 661. These words also appear in a fragmentary poem attributed to Petronius (Fragm. 22. 1).
Julius Streicher (1885–1946) German politician
To Leon Goldensohn, April 6, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
“God's country. He could have made it smaller and still made the same point.”
John Updike book Rabbit at Rest
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
“The idiots always rose to the top and made policy.
It explained a lot of things.”
Jack McDevitt (1935) American novelist, Short story writer
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 22 (p. 200)