The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life. — Mark Twain Exercise Copy Share Image
There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Prophecy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.” — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
“Make the best o' things that smoothes people's roads the most..” — Mark Twain Best things Copy Share Image
There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it. — Mark Twain Ability Copy Share Image
The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to… — Mark Twain Cursing Copy Share Image
December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February. — Mark Twain April Copy Share Image
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey — Mark Twain Heavenly father Copy Share Image
I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it. — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead… — Mark Twain Men Copy Share Image
It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did… — Mark Twain Gambling Copy Share Image
“Susan bathing, surprised by the two old man. In the background the lapidation of the condemned." ("Lapidation" is good; it is much… — Mark Twain Old man Copy Share Image
The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business.… — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
“Certainly. Of course. That’s part of it. And always coming to school or when we’re going home, you’re to walk with me,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I know now that all that glitters is not gold... However, I still go underrating men of gold, and glorifying men of… — Mark Twain Gold Copy Share Image
I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside… — Mark Twain Cat Copy Share Image
Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a… — Mark Twain Agriculture Copy Share Image
Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the… — Mark Twain Almighty Copy Share Image
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed… — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
“It’s the same here as it is on earth—you’ve got to earn a thing, square and honest, before you enjoy it. You… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was a good pup, was that Andrew Jackson, and would have made a name for hisself if he’d lived, for the… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
“it don’t make no diference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t got no sense, and just goes for… — Mark Twain Conscience Copy Share Image
“As the boys steadily and monotonously drove the raft toward mid-stream it was no doubt understood that these orders were given only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to… — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“it's the little things that smoothes people's roads the most” — Mark Twain Little things Copy Share Image
