My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it!.. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“that dismal prison house within whose dungeons so many young faces put on the wrinkles of age,” — Mark Twain Prison Copy Share Image
The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer. — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and… — Mark Twain Beautiful Copy Share Image
Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth. — Mark Twain Adventure Copy Share Image
Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion. — Mark Twain Funeral Copy Share Image
“What got you into trouble?" says the baldhead to t'other chap. "Well, I'd been selling an article to take the tartar off… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old… — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
“It would ’a’ been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; for what you want, above all things, on… — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
“And when he awoke in the morning and looked upon the wretchedness about him, his dream had had its usual effect: it… — Mark Twain Dreams Copy Share Image
He had had much experience of physicians, and said, the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Yet little Tom was not unhappy. He had a hard time of it but did not know it. It was the sort… — Mark Twain Hard time Copy Share Image
“The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a… — Mark Twain Bad idea Copy Share Image
The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for… — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." [ Mark Twain, a Biography ]” — Mark Twain Humor Copy Share Image
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. — Mark Twain Prayer Copy Share Image
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. — Mark Twain Behind closed doors Copy Share Image
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you. — Mark Twain Family 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
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination. — Mark Twain Beliefs Copy Share Image
What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear. — Mark Twain Country Copy Share Image
To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination — Mark Twain Belief Copy Share Image
Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun? — Mark Twain Advice Copy Share Image
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities.” — Mark Twain Convictions Copy Share Image
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience. — Mark Twain Inconvenience Copy Share Image
We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock. — Mark Twain Bird Copy Share Image
Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Jim said he believed it was spirits, but I says: no, spirits wouldn't say "dern the dern fog".” — Mark Twain Fog Copy Share Image
“Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest… — Mark Twain Life Copy Share Image
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. — Mark Twain Christian Copy Share Image
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey! — Mark Twain Civilization Copy Share Image
I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours. — Mark Twain Deeds Copy Share Image
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
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