“The world is made wrong; kings should go to school to their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human… — 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
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we… — 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
The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from… — 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
