Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours. — Mark Twain Great moments Copy Share Image
“Any established church is an established crime, an established slave pen.” — Mark Twain Religion Copy Share Image
Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand — Mark Twain Appetite Copy Share Image
“Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up… — Mark Twain Atheist Copy Share Image
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter. — Mark Twain Data Copy Share Image
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if… — Mark Twain Christ Copy Share Image
I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to… — Mark Twain Cigar Copy Share Image
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically… — Mark Twain Acquaintance Copy Share Image
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I… — Mark Twain Annihilation Copy Share Image
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of serpents in those days.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in… — Mark Twain Biblical Copy Share Image
I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect… — Mark Twain Astronomy Copy Share Image
“when the illumination did at last come, we felt repaid. It came unexpectedly, of course—things always do, that have been long looked… — Mark Twain Illumination Copy Share Image
Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
