Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do. — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year. — Mark Twain Alive Copy Share Image
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That… — Mark Twain Dance Copy Share Image
“I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. But I put… — Mark Twain Friendship Copy Share Image
When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry,… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are .… — Mark Twain Autobiography Copy Share Image
It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the… — Mark Twain Bears Copy Share Image
“There are not books enough on earth to contain the record of the prophecies Indians and other unauthorized parties have made; but… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
“Two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind—politics and religion. He doesn’t want to know the other… — Mark Twain Politics Copy Share Image
“Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.” — Mark Twain Diamonds Copy Share Image
“My works are like water. The works of the great masters are like wine. But everyone drinks water. - From Mark Twain's… — Mark Twain Inspirational Copy Share Image
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her. — Mark Twain Acquaintance Copy Share Image
The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried… — Mark Twain Equator Copy Share Image
Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. — Mark Twain Education Copy Share Image
Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a… — Mark Twain Civilization Copy Share Image
If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe. — Mark Twain Bribe Copy Share Image
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. — Mark Twain Class Copy Share Image
“had studied law an entire week, and then given it up because it was so prosy and tiresome.” — Mark Twain Law Copy Share Image
“The truth is, a person's memory has no more sense that his conscience, and no appreciation whatever of values and proportions.” — Mark Twain Conscience Copy Share Image
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to… — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance. — Mark Twain Color Copy Share Image
“Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction. The castle is done.… — Mark Twain Good man Copy Share Image
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. — Mark Twain Accumulation Copy Share Image
It is often the case that a man who cant tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one. — Mark Twain Dishonesty Copy Share Image
We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is strong language, but true. None of us could _live_ with an habitual truthteller; but thank goodness none of us has… — Mark Twain Language Copy Share Image
I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can. — Mark Twain Data Copy Share Image
Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on. — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
“And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself. Her” — Mark Twain Heart Copy Share Image