Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. — Mark Twain Day Copy Share Image
Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again. — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety. — Mark Twain Anxiety Copy Share Image
All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain. — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. — Mark Twain Gods Copy Share Image
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Blossoms Copy Share Image
A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes… — Mark Twain Childhood Copy Share Image
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation… — Mark Twain Argument Copy Share Image
“A dog is der Hund the dog; a women is die Frau the wom[an]; a horse is das Pferd, the horse; now… — Mark Twain Dog Copy Share Image
“I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
“A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to… — Mark Twain Children Copy Share Image
“The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He will leave Bibles to eat bricks, he will leave bricks to eat bottles, he will leave bottles to eat clothing, he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way. — Mark Twain Inspiration Copy Share Image
Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age. — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image