Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success. — Mark Twain Secret Copy Share Image
“People who do not read have no advantage over those who can not read.” — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes. — Mark Twain Congress Copy Share Image
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all. — Mark Twain Life Copy Share Image
“Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.” — Mark Twain Amor Copy Share Image
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. — Mark Twain Achievement Copy Share Image
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go! — Mark Twain Fair Copy Share Image
Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
The 2 most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French. — Mark Twain Angel Copy Share Image
“He told me what it was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would… — Mark Twain Free man Copy Share Image
The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's… — Mark Twain Affair Copy Share Image
“Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a… — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in… — Mark Twain English Copy Share Image
As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that… — Mark Twain Boys Copy Share Image
The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out… — Mark Twain Human race Copy Share Image
I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again… — Mark Twain Bells Copy Share Image
You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that… — Mark Twain Adventure Copy Share Image
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As regards his health--and the rest of the things--the average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and… — Mark Twain Average man Copy Share Image
“Among you boys you have a game: you stand a row of bricks on end a few inches apart; you push a… — Mark Twain Birth Copy Share Image
There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you;… — Mark Twain Apples Copy Share Image
Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Lying is universal - we all do it. Therefore, the wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully,… — Mark Twain Humor Copy Share Image
“Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom. Well, I can tell you it… — Mark Twain Blacks Copy Share Image
I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself. — Mark Twain Congress Copy Share Image
I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else. — Mark Twain Lying Copy Share Image
