Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. — Mark Twain Clothes Copy Share Image
There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule. — Mark Twain Inspirational Copy Share Image
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it!.. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heaven goes by favor; If it went on merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. — Mark Twain Dog lover Copy Share Image
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for… — Mark Twain Boys Copy Share Image
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter” — Mark Twain Ordeal Copy Share Image
“In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. (They… — Mark Twain Artist Copy Share Image
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In both instances [a car coming out of the Himalayas and tobogganning] the sensation was pleasurable--intensely so; it was a sudden and… — Mark Twain Joy Copy Share Image
These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one… — Mark Twain Adultery Copy Share Image
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell… — Mark Twain Charm Copy Share Image
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present,… — Mark Twain Attitude Copy Share Image
“Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony… — Mark Twain Achievement Copy Share Image
If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits… — Mark Twain Advertising Copy Share Image
Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the… — Mark Twain Branching out Copy Share Image
“had gradually come to have a realizing sense of the fact that Slade was a man whose heart and hands and soul… — Mark Twain Day and night Copy Share Image
“He killed all those people -- every male. They had offended the Deity in some way. We know what the offense was,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to… — Mark Twain Animals Copy Share Image
“His grandeurs were stricken valueless: they seemed to fall away from him like rotten rags. The procession moved on, and still on,… — Mark Twain Captivity Copy Share Image
“Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles. Not because his troubles were one whitless heavy and bitter… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. — Mark Twain Life Copy Share Image
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“One wearies of everything in this world, even happiness. Did” — Mark Twain Happiness Copy Share Image