You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. — Mark Twain Focus Copy Share Image
Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself. — Mark Twain Good story Copy Share Image
Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good. — Mark Twain Evil Copy Share Image
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes. — Mark Twain Age 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 Crime Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and… — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
“Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt.” — Mark Twain Dance Copy Share Image
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but… — Mark Twain Common ground Copy Share Image
“This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March,… — Mark Twain Customer Copy Share Image
Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they… — Mark Twain Acting Copy Share Image
“There is no regular system of taxation, but when the Emperor or the Bashaw want money, they levy on some rich man,… — Mark Twain Money Copy Share Image
“So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much… — Mark Twain Chronicle Copy Share Image
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government… — Mark Twain American patriotism Copy Share Image
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when… — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
“The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless… — Mark Twain Freedom Copy Share Image
“Tom felt that it was time to wake up; this sort of life might be romantic enough, in his blighted condition, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What would the new teacher, representing France, teach us? Railroading? No. France knows nothing valuable about railroading. Steamshipping? No. France has no… — Mark Twain Education Copy Share Image
If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a… — Mark Twain Admiration Copy Share Image
“I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to… — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
“As the boys steadily and monotonously drove the raft toward mid-stream it was no doubt understood that these orders were given only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes. — Mark Twain England Copy Share Image
The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so. — Mark Twain Ignorance Copy Share Image
It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
