“If You don't read good books, then you are no better than an unlettered Man” — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag. — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
“They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness.” — Mark Twain Cruelty Copy Share Image
“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Mark Twain” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside — Mark Twain Food Copy Share Image
One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain Appreciation Copy Share Image
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Vesuvius of today is a very poor affair compared to the mighty volcano of Kilauea, in the Sandwich Islands, but I… — Mark Twain Volcano Copy Share Image
Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Like it! Yes—the way I'd like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough. No, Tom, I won't… — Mark Twain Freedom Copy Share Image
I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony… — Mark Twain Agony Copy Share Image
It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest… — Mark Twain Army Copy Share Image
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an… — Mark Twain Admiration Copy Share Image
“But as soon as one is at rest in this world off he goes on something else to worry about.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter... — Mark Twain Heart Copy Share Image
By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship… — Mark Twain Nations Copy Share Image
A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was… — Mark Twain Bears Copy Share Image
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest? — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
“have been editorially supplied for works that Clemens left untitled. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It hadn’t ever come home to me before, what this thing was that I was doing.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter the size of the dog in the fight, rather the size of the fight in the dog.” — Mark Twain Fight In The Dog Copy Share Image
There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness… — Mark Twain Bears Copy Share Image
“Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.” — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. — Mark Twain Taxes Copy Share Image
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never… — Mark Twain Cat Copy Share Image
No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous. — Mark Twain Mass Copy Share Image
In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it. — Mark Twain Brotherhood Copy Share Image
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it. — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. — Mark Twain Bugs Copy Share Image
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama,… — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
