That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another. — Mark Twain Direction Copy Share Image
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven. — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. — Mark Twain Cynical Copy Share Image
“Everything in moderation except whiskey, and sometimes too much whiskey is just enough.” — Mark Twain Moderation Copy Share Image
Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture…He takes upon himself… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless.… — Mark Twain Allegory Copy Share Image
“Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I desire to tamper with the jury law. I wish to alter it as to put a premium on intelligence and character,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its… — Mark Twain Confidence Copy Share Image
Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do… — Mark Twain Care Copy Share Image
“Cave is a good word… The memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind, with its lofty… — Mark Twain Cave Copy Share Image
Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there… — Mark Twain Boundaries Copy Share Image
“This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry… — Mark Twain Christian Copy Share Image
“I ain’t everybody, and I can’t stand it. It’s awful to be tied up so. And grub comes too easy – I… — Mark Twain Fear Copy Share Image
“At certain periods it becomes the dearest ambition of a man to keep a faithful record of his performances in a book;… — Mark Twain Ambition Copy Share Image
“Once my imagination persuaded me that the dying man gave me a reproachful look out of his shadowy eyes, and it seemed… — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
“Satan laughed his unkind laugh to a finish; then he said: "It is a remarkable progress. In five or six thousand years… — Mark Twain Christianity Copy Share Image
A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having. — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
“The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
![“I ain’t everybody, and I can’t stand it. It’s awful to be tied up so. And grub comes too easy – I don’t take no interest in vittles, that way. […] Looky-here, Tom, being rich ain’t what it’s cracked out to be. It’s just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time…” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/884/mark-twain-22_fear_i-ain-t-everybody-and-i-can-t-stand-it-i_1303975.jpg)
