It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval. — Mark Twain Approval Copy Share Image
There are a thousand excuses for failure, but never a good reason. — Mark Twain Excuses Copy Share Image
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. — Mark Twain Achievement Copy Share Image
I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with… — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals. — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations,… — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“To the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had… — Mark Twain Dance Copy Share Image
There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of… — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
“The choir always tittered and whispered all through service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have… — Mark Twain Choir Copy Share Image
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Then the old man got to cussing, and cussed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cussed them all over… — Mark Twain Old man Copy Share Image
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Fear drove many on deck that were used to avoiding the night winds and the spray. Some thought the vessel could not… — Mark Twain Fear Copy Share Image
“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is lead in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad,… — 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 Anarchy Copy Share Image
“Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government,… — Mark Twain Government Copy Share Image
How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps! — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. — Mark Twain Cigar Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so. — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
