Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. — Mark Twain Honest truth Copy Share Image
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place. — Mark Twain First place Copy Share Image
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined. — Mark Twain Dance Copy Share Image
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all… — Mark Twain Classics Copy Share Image
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. — Mark Twain Fiction Copy Share Image
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
“We never read the full explanatory surroundings of marvelously exciting things when we have no occasion to suppose that some irresponsible scribbler… — Mark Twain Exciting things Copy Share Image
the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me… — Mark Twain American literature Copy Share Image
Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of… — Mark Twain Art Copy Share Image
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have… — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
“Notwithstanding all this furniture, there was still room to turn around in, but not to swing a cat in, at least with… — Mark Twain Cats Copy Share Image
Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they… — Mark Twain Christian Copy Share Image
“Tom got out a bit of paper and carefully unrolled it. Huckleberry viewed it wistfully. The temptation was very strong. At last… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. There is… — Mark Twain Brother Copy Share Image
As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all… — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey… — Mark Twain Adults Copy Share Image
The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loyalty… — Mark Twain Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“There are,” said Twain, “certain sweet-smelling, sugarcoated lies current in the world which all politic men have apparently tacitly conspired together to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some… — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter. — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
