A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter the size of the dog in the fight, rather the size of the fight in the dog.” — Mark Twain Fight In The Dog Copy Share Image
There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness… — Mark Twain Bears Copy Share Image
“Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.” — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. — Mark Twain Taxes Copy Share Image
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never… — Mark Twain Cat Copy Share Image
No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous. — Mark Twain Mass Copy Share Image
In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it. — Mark Twain Brotherhood Copy Share Image
You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it. — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
“It is full of interest, it has noble poetry in it and some clever fables and some blood drenched history, some good… — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
“We met a great many other interesting people, among them Lewis Carroll, author of the immortal "Alice"--but he was only interesting to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad… — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution… — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to… — Mark Twain Affair Copy Share Image
Honesty is the best and the most expensive gift you can give to someone. It brings trust. It makes you trustworthy, which… — Mark Twain Gift Copy Share Image
The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse… — Mark Twain Absence Copy Share Image
“I reckon the widow or the parson or somebody prayed that this bread would find me, and here it have gone and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching—all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a… — Mark Twain Brotherly love Copy Share Image
I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of… — Mark Twain Heart Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.… — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other… — Mark Twain Civilization Copy Share Image
Its not true that men forget they're married when they see a pretty woman. Just the opposite, thats when they're most painfully… — Mark Twain Marriage Copy Share Image
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The timid man yearns for full value and asks for a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Mark Twain. "The truth should never be permitted to stand in the way of a good story.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
