My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill… — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. — Mark Twain Fearful Copy Share Image
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
“Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction. The castle is done.… — Mark Twain Good man Copy Share Image
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. — Mark Twain Accumulation Copy Share Image
It is often the case that a man who cant tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one. — Mark Twain Dishonesty Copy Share Image
We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the… — Mark Twain Argument Copy Share Image
I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it,… — Mark Twain Approval Copy Share Image
I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve… — Mark Twain Political Copy Share Image
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today,… — Mark Twain Admiration Copy Share Image
What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on… — Mark Twain Alive Copy Share Image
“Sure enough, it was just as I had dreaded, he started to climb the tree-" "What the Bull?" "Of course- who else?"… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an… — Mark Twain Attention Copy Share Image
That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the… — Mark Twain Care Copy Share Image
“If we hadn’t our bewitching autumn foliage, we should still have to credit the weather with one feature which compensates for all… — Mark Twain Autumn Copy Share Image
A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Under our infamous laws the seducer is not punished, and is not even disgraced, but his victim and all her family and… — Mark Twain Family Copy Share Image
Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it… — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.” — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession. — Mark Twain Brotherhood Copy Share Image
