Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success. — Mark Twain Secret Copy Share Image
He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea. — Mark Twain Audience Copy Share Image
Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we… — Mark Twain Asylums Copy Share Image
“Listen — and do not doubt me, for I shall speak the exact truth. Howard Tracy, I am no more an earl’s… — Mark Twain Children Copy Share Image
I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time. — Mark Twain Habit Copy Share Image
“I desire to tamper with the jury law. I wish to alter it as to put a premium on intelligence and character,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture…He takes upon himself… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless.… — Mark Twain Allegory Copy Share Image
Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do… — Mark Twain Care Copy Share Image
When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its… — Mark Twain Confidence Copy Share Image
There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
“The reader must not imagine that he is to find in it wisdom, brilliancy, fertility of invention, ingenuity of construction, excellence of… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these… — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then.… — Mark Twain Holy grail Copy Share Image
“The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Me estoy dando cuenta de que me da igual bañarme si nadie me lo prohíbe.” — Mark Twain Amor Copy Share Image
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. — Mark Twain Day Copy Share Image
