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
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
My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done. — Mark Twain Death 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
“I have no special regard for Satan; but I can at least claim that I have no prejudice against him. It may… — Mark Twain Religion Copy Share Image
“We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has… — Mark Twain Art Copy Share Image
Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your… — Mark Twain Bicycle Copy Share Image
But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
“In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. (They… — Mark Twain Artist Copy Share Image
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd… — Mark Twain Angel Copy Share Image
This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had… — Mark Twain Ancient Copy Share Image
“The crowd swarmed together and followed him at a distance, talking excitedly and asking questions and finding out the facts. Finding out… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the… — Mark Twain Best friend Copy Share Image
Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters. — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. — Mark Twain Attention 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
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
A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial. — Mark Twain Comedy 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
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
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
But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie. — 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
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
Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine. — Mark Twain 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
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
Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted. — 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
![“This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for forty-four years. . . . [Footnote: Roughing It is dedicated to Higbie.] . . . I shall allow myself the privilege of copying his punctuation and his…” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9c2/mark-twain-22_ancient_this-morning-arrives-a-letter-from-my-an_1751606.jpg)
