Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth,… — 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
