An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music. — Mark Twain Ecstasy Copy Share Image
This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet. — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. — Mark Twain Gratify Copy Share Image
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense. — Mark Twain Champion Copy Share Image
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. — Mark Twain Desire Copy Share Image
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them. — Mark Twain Criminals Copy Share Image
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He said if I warn’t so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. He said… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.”… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's name is Public opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. — Mark Twain Opinion Copy Share Image
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average… — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can… — Mark Twain Crime Copy Share Image
It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor;… — Mark Twain Dream Copy Share Image
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of… — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a… — Mark Twain Creating Copy Share Image
“It know we have a fashion of saying "such and such an event was the turning-point in my life," but we shouldn't… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous… — Mark Twain Beauty Copy Share Image
Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the… — Mark Twain Authorship Copy Share Image
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kills… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful… — Mark Twain Alive Copy Share Image
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on. Then in another… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Antiwar Copy Share Image
There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others. — Mark Twain Astronomy Copy Share Image
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. — Mark Twain Adversity Copy Share Image
“People who do not read have no advantage over those who can not read.” — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
