Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. — Mark Twain Dark Copy Share Image
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. — Mark Twain Optimism Copy Share Image
A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. — Mark Twain Baby Copy Share Image
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money… — Mark Twain Money Copy Share Image
The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future. — Mark Twain Art Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. — Mark Twain Being thankful Copy Share Image
Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us. — Mark Twain Conscience Copy Share Image
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire. — Mark Twain Art Copy Share Image
There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
“Mere life is a luxury, and the color of the grass, of the flowers, of the sky, the wind in the trees,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Man is a marvelous curiosity … he thinks he is the Creator’s pet … he even believes the Creator loves him; has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the South, and I’ve lived in the… — Mark Twain Born and raised Copy Share Image
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,… — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon… — Mark Twain France Copy Share Image
From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one… — Mark Twain Comfort Copy Share Image
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in… — Mark Twain Care Copy Share Image
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,… — Mark Twain Burden Copy Share Image
We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching—all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a… — Mark Twain Brotherly love Copy Share Image
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence — Mark Twain Providence Copy Share Image
