…try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard. — Mark Twain Food Copy Share Image
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always. — Mark Twain Moments Copy Share Image
“If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.” — Mark Twain Church Copy Share Image
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better. — Mark Twain God Copy Share Image
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand… — Mark Twain Atoms Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
“Descoperise fără să ştie că pentru a face pe om să dorească un lucru, fie că-i bărbat în toată firea, fie că-i… — Mark Twain Amor Copy Share Image
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better… — Mark Twain Animals Copy Share Image
...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect… — Mark Twain Astronomy Copy Share Image
“when the illumination did at last come, we felt repaid. It came unexpectedly, of course—things always do, that have been long looked… — Mark Twain Illumination Copy Share Image
Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
“After breakfast they went whooping and prancing out on the bar, and chased each other round and round, shedding clothes as they… — Mark Twain Best man Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
“Clarence was with me as concerned the revolution, but in a modified way. His idea was a republic, without privileged orders, but… — Mark Twain Family Copy Share Image
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who… — Mark Twain Authority Copy Share Image
A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par. — Mark Twain Awe Copy Share Image
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world… — Mark Twain Democracy Copy Share Image
I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent. — Mark Twain Accents Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. — Mark Twain Forgiveness Copy Share Image
Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in… — Mark Twain Church Copy Share Image
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.” — Mark Twain Child Copy Share Image
“He said if I warn’t so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. He said… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.”… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's name is Public opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. — Mark Twain Opinion Copy Share Image
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the… — Mark Twain Advantage Copy Share Image
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
