Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it. — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there. — Mark Twain Inspirational Copy Share Image
The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. — Mark Twain Appreciation Copy Share Image
“If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” — Mark Twain Cats Copy Share Image
Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put… — Mark Twain History Copy Share Image
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. — Mark Twain Genius Copy Share Image
One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain Conformity Copy Share Image
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. — Mark Twain Differences Copy Share Image
...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of… — Mark Twain Achievement Copy Share Image
I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for… — Mark Twain Church Copy Share Image
“T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the… — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them,… — Mark Twain Astonishment Copy Share Image
There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for… — Mark Twain Cooking Copy Share Image
He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby… — Mark Twain Best friend 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 am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop… — Mark Twain Education Copy Share Image
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable… — Mark Twain Narrow mindedness Copy Share Image
“Pray for me! I reckoned if she knowed me she’d take a job that was more nearer her size. But I bet… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment. — Mark Twain Bears Copy Share Image
An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't. — Mark Twain Adventure Copy Share Image
“I’m so happy I could scalp somebody. (Said after he got married)” — mark twain Marriage Copy Share Image
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