A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing — Mark Twain Confidence Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“They did not know that the quicker a fresh-water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he is;” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage. — Mark Twain Bigotry Copy Share Image
I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land. — Mark Twain American imperialism Copy Share Image
...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel;… — Mark Twain Angel Copy Share Image
“all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. Now the way… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did… — Mark Twain Doubt Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Absurd Copy Share Image
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically… — Mark Twain Nobility Copy Share Image
Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death,… — Mark Twain Angel Copy Share Image
I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Every noun has a gender, and there is no sense or system in the distribution; so the gender of each must be… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“the sun was up so high when i waked, that i judged it was after eight o’clock. i laid there in the… — Mark Twain Huck-finn Copy Share Image
“Now what has kept your leaves so green, Arbre Fée de Bourlemont? The children's tears! They brought each grief, And you did… — Mark Twain Children Copy Share Image
“Now then, in the earth these people cannot stand much church -- an hour and a quarter is the limit, and they… — Mark Twain Nature Copy Share Image
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have… — Mark Twain Brain Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his… — Mark Twain Children Copy Share Image
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny — Mark Twain Arrogance Copy Share Image
God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created. — Mark Twain Good heart Copy Share Image
“Me estoy dando cuenta de que me da igual bañarme si nadie me lo prohíbe.” — Mark Twain Amor Copy Share Image
