Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty… — Mark Twain Conflict Copy Share Image
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are… — Mark Twain Bird Copy Share Image
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it… — Mark Twain Affectionate Copy Share Image
It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him. — Mark Twain Children Copy Share Image
When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its… — Mark Twain Confidence Copy Share Image
Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do… — Mark Twain Care Copy Share Image
“NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and… — Mark Twain Humor Copy Share Image
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat… — Mark Twain Cat Copy Share Image
In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The idea of you lynching anybody! It's amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! Because… — Mark Twain Lynching Copy Share Image
Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny - the hands was gone to the fields;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
“Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general,… — Mark Twain Work Copy Share Image
“Sunday morning came – next day the battalions would leave for the front; the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their… — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
“These coins are not very valuable. Jack went out to get a napoleon changed, so as to have money suited to the… — Mark Twain Money Copy Share Image
“The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.” — Mark Twain Fiction Copy Share Image
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards — Mark Twain Education Copy Share Image
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in… — Mark Twain Art Copy Share Image
All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst. — Mark Twain Daughter Copy Share Image
“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself. — Mark Twain Disaster Copy Share Image
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.” — Mark Twain Dog Copy Share Image
“There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about. -- Huck Finn” — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush.” — Mark Twain Silence Copy Share Image
Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands. — Mark Twain Comforting Copy Share Image
In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money. — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
