I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened. — Mark Twain Fear Copy Share Image
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. — Mark Twain Clothes Copy Share Image
A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty. — Mark Twain Creator Copy Share Image
“In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities.” — Mark Twain Convictions Copy Share Image
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock. — Mark Twain Bird Copy Share Image
In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience. — Mark Twain Inconvenience Copy Share Image
Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Jim said he believed it was spirits, but I says: no, spirits wouldn't say "dern the dern fog".” — Mark Twain Fog Copy Share Image
No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms… — Mark Twain Beauty Copy Share Image
There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can… — Mark Twain Crime Copy Share Image
The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average… — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a… — Mark Twain Creating Copy Share Image
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of… — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor;… — Mark Twain Dream Copy Share Image
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing,… — Mark Twain Body Copy Share Image
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them… — Mark Twain Assault Copy Share Image
A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I… — Mark Twain Absence Copy Share Image
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In the common walks of life, with what delightful emotions does the youthful mind look forward to some anticipated scene of festivity!… — Mark Twain Flowers Copy Share Image
They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments. — Mark Twain Bread Copy Share Image
