There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and… — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea. — Mark Twain Audience 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
“As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke… — Mark Twain Moderation Copy Share Image
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury… — Mark Twain Divine Copy Share Image
The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of… — Mark Twain Expression Copy Share Image
Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself,… — Mark Twain Crescent Copy Share Image
“No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians… — Mark Twain Body 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
He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to… — Mark Twain 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
It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged. — Mark Twain 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
Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better. — Mark Twain God 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
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 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
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
Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. — Mark Twain Forgiveness 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
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
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
“The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.” — Mark Twain Child 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