We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die. — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. — Mark Twain Charm Copy Share Image
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to… — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
“The truth is, a person's memory has no more sense that his conscience, and no appreciation whatever of values and proportions.” — Mark Twain Conscience Copy Share Image
Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance. — Mark Twain Color Copy Share Image
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year. — Mark Twain Alive Copy Share Image
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That… — Mark Twain Dance Copy Share Image
“Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.” — Mark Twain Diamonds Copy Share Image
The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried… — Mark Twain Equator Copy Share Image
“I am quite sure ... I have no race prejudice, and I think I have no color prejudices, nor caste prejudices. Indeed,… — Mark Twain Racism Copy Share Image
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized… — Mark Twain Benefactors Copy Share Image
“Hello Huckleberry!" "Hello, yourself, and see how you like it." "What's that you got?" "Dead cat." "Lemme see him, Huck. My, he's… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to… — Mark Twain Climate Copy Share Image
“Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and… — Mark Twain Discovery Copy Share Image
Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins.… — Mark Twain Baby Copy Share Image
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“So it shows that for all the brag you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instink is worth forty of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government,… — Mark Twain Government Copy Share Image
I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill,… — Mark Twain Adults Copy Share Image
“There was a slight noise from the direction of the dim corner where the ladder was. It was the king descending. I… — Mark Twain Heroism Copy Share Image
“It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and… — Mark Twain Faith Copy Share Image
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Fear drove many on deck that were used to avoiding the night winds and the spray. Some thought the vessel could not… — Mark Twain Fear Copy Share Image
“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is lead in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself. — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
