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
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
“This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any cause that will tickle… — Mark Twain Humor Copy Share Image
The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of… — Mark Twain Civilization Copy Share Image
The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Oh, there spoke the human! He is always pretending that the eternal bliss of heaven is such a priceless boon! Yes, and… — Mark Twain Happiness 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
“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 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
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
“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
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
What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom… — Mark Twain Becky 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
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
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts… — Mark Twain All occasions Copy Share Image
Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity-- Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy… — Mark Twain Advice Copy Share Image
“The word Palestine always brought to my mind a vague suggestion of a country as large as the United States. I do… — Mark Twain Israel Copy Share Image
We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make… — Mark Twain Chicago Copy Share Image
But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war,… — Mark Twain Boys Copy Share Image
The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency… — Mark Twain Approval Copy Share Image
“You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of you imagination. You… — Mark Twain Fables Copy Share Image
An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a… — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“But the "celebrate" was an astonishing disappointment to me. If he had been behind a screen I should have supposed they were… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“His hair was short and parted accurately in the middle, and he had all the look of an American person who would… — Mark Twain Humor Copy Share Image
![“If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/78e/mark-twain-22_dead_if-they-the-dead-should-speak-it-would-b_285979.png)
