“Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man he has struck bottom... there is no lower deep… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the… — Mark Twain Enemy Copy Share Image
A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring. — Mark Twain Bird Copy Share Image
If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her… — Mark Twain Cat Copy Share Image
When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom. — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the… — Mark Twain History Copy Share Image
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the… — Mark Twain Complaints Copy Share Image
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I… — Mark Twain Body Copy Share Image
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and… — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for… — Mark Twain Atlantic ocean Copy Share Image
“the king he allowed he would drop over to t'other village without any plan, but just trust in Providence to lead him… — Mark Twain Devil Copy Share Image
“I reckon the widow or the parson or somebody prayed that this bread would find me, and here it have gone and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion,… — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Allegiance Copy Share Image
You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away)… — Mark Twain Curiosity Copy Share Image
“Damascus, is simply an oasis, that is what it is. For four thousand years its waters have not gone dry or its… — Mark Twain Damascus Copy Share Image
Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining… — Mark Twain Alive Copy Share Image
“a square, flat-roofed hovel, neatly frescoed, with its wall-tops gallantly bastioned and turreted with dried camel-refuse, gives to a landscape a feature… — Mark Twain Cats Copy Share Image
“by and by it got sort of lonesome, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current… — Mark Twain Better way Copy Share Image
I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive. — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
There is no end to the laws, and no beginning to the execution of them — Mark Twain Birth Copy Share Image
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment — Mark Twain Experiments Copy Share Image
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” — Mark Twain Loyalty Copy Share Image
