Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone . — Mark Twain Bliss Copy Share Image
I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit. — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by. — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. — Mark Twain Country Copy Share Image
Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of… — Mark Twain Anti war Copy Share Image
Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to… — Mark Twain Care Copy Share Image
I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
“to make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always… — Mark Twain Free man Copy Share Image
“Then, having thus made the Creator responsible for all those pains and diseases and miseries above enumerated, and which he could have… — Mark Twain Creator Copy Share Image
“Man is made of dirt - I saw him made. I am not made of dirt. Man is a museum of diseases,… — Mark Twain Racism Copy Share Image
Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;… — Mark Twain Accomplishment Copy Share Image
When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he… — Mark Twain Aristocracy Copy Share Image
There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s… — Mark Twain Baby Copy Share Image
“The first glance at the pillow showed me a repulsive sentinel perched upon each end of it--cockroaches as large as peach leaves--fellows… — Mark Twain Bugs Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. — Mark Twain Hero Copy Share Image
The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin] — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
“To be good is noble. To tell other people how to be good is even nobler and much less trouble” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time. — Mark Twain Habit Copy Share Image
Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Listen — and do not doubt me, for I shall speak the exact truth. Howard Tracy, I am no more an earl’s… — Mark Twain Children Copy Share Image
I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we… — Mark Twain Asylums Copy Share Image
A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn… — Mark Twain Approval Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous. — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
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