To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I can help anyone get anything they want out of life. The only problem is that I can't find anyone who knows… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The reign of Edward VI was a singularly merciful one for those harsh times. Now that we are taking leave of him… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ...… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
