Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only… — Mark Twain Asylums Copy Share Image
One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. — Mark Twain Cat Copy Share Image
But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted,… — Mark Twain Avarice Copy Share Image
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but… — Mark Twain Citizen Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, & over these ideals they dispute & cannot unite--but… — mark twain Money Copy Share Image
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval. — Mark Twain Approval Copy Share Image
“Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his . His was a great… — Mark Twain Beautiful Copy Share Image
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the… — Mark Twain Creation Copy Share Image
It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“MONDAY morning found Tom Sawyer miserable. Monday morning always found him so—because it began another week's slow suffering in school. He generally… — Mark Twain Monday Copy Share Image
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The guide showed us a coffee-colored piece of sculpture which he said was considered to have come from the hand of Phidias,… — Mark Twain Nature Copy Share Image
I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles. Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and… — Mark Twain Stranger Copy Share Image
“That was thirteen hundred years ago. This is really no improvement upon the work of the Roman augurs. Has the trade of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it!… — Mark Twain Expression Copy Share Image
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
“We shall remember … Damascus, the "Pearl of the East", the pride of Syria, the fabled garden of Eden, the home of… — Mark Twain Damascus Copy Share Image
“The old one is tamer than it was, and can laugh and talk like the parrot, having learned this, no doubt, from… — Mark Twain Long ago Copy Share Image
If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out. — Mark Twain Fool Copy Share Image
“your lip," says he. "You've put on considerable many frills since I been away. I'll take you down” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great. — Mark Twain Divorce Copy Share Image
“No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.” — Mark Twain Life Copy Share Image
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try. — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
“What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally… — Mark Twain Thinkers Copy Share Image
Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done. — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a… — Mark Twain Habit Copy Share Image
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters. — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
The two most important days of our life are... The Day you were Born... And the Day you find out Why... — Mark Twain Important days Copy Share Image
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
