“Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.” — Mark Twain Environment Copy Share Image
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to… — Mark Twain Hate Copy Share Image
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge. — Mark Twain Home Copy Share Image
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. — Mark Twain Lightning Copy Share Image
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side. — Mark Twain Christianity Copy Share Image
What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly.… — Mark Twain Brevity Copy Share Image
“Why, an' thou shouldst live a thousand years thou'dst never hear so masterful a cursing. Alack, her art died with her. There… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I once heard a grouty northern invalid say that a coconut tree might be poetical, possibly it was; but it looked like… — Mark Twain Hawaii Copy Share Image
If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury… — Mark Twain Divine Copy Share Image
The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of… — Mark Twain Expression Copy Share Image
Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself,… — Mark Twain Crescent Copy Share Image
I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever… — Mark Twain Cry Copy Share Image
“Each of us knows it all, and knows he knows it all—the rest, to a man, are fools and eluded. One man… — Mark Twain Ignorance Copy Share Image
The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies… — Mark Twain Army Copy Share Image
Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I admit that I treed a rheumatic grandfather of mine in the winter of 1850. He was old and inexpert in climbing… — Mark Twain Climbing trees Copy Share Image
“Just in this one matter lies the main charm of life in Europe—comfort. In America, we hurry—which is well; but when the… — Mark Twain Comfort Copy Share Image
“Yes, we were sold at auction, like swine. In a big town and an active market we should have brought a good… — Mark Twain Investing Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Architecture Copy Share Image
“I will conclude this chapter with a remark that I am sincerely proud to be able to make—and glad, as well, that… — Mark Twain Eleventh hour Copy Share Image
I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy. — Mark Twain Happiness Copy Share Image
Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women. — Mark Twain Ambition Copy Share Image