I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive. — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
There is no end to the laws, and no beginning to the execution of them — Mark Twain Birth Copy Share Image
“And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself. Her” — Mark Twain Heart Copy Share Image
Writing is the easiest thing in the world… Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight” — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement. — Mark Twain Decision making Copy Share Image
“They mourned for his kind of Christianity, and he frankly scoffed at theirs; but both parties went on loving each other just… — Mark Twain Christianity Copy Share Image
There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined… — Mark Twain Alps Copy Share Image
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines and "jimpson" weeds that constituted… — Mark Twain Garden Copy Share Image
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an… — Mark Twain Aristocracy Copy Share Image
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to… — Mark Twain Belief Copy Share Image
“Sir Walter Scott created rank & caste in the South and also reverence for and pride and pleasure in them. Life on… — Mark Twain Chivalry Copy Share Image
“Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could a touched him, nearly. Well, likely… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Now, children, I want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all your… — Mark Twain Children Copy Share Image
Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
“I should not be able to make any one understand how exciting it all was. You know that kind of quiver that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great… — Mark Twain Acquisition Copy Share Image
“O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling… — Mark Twain God Copy Share Image
