A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog. — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to… — Mark Twain Grief Copy Share Image
“Almost every convert runs the risk of catching our civilization... I compassionate missionary, leave China! come home and convert these Christians!” — Mark Twain Christians Copy Share Image
What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate. — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do… — Mark Twain Body Copy Share Image
I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest,… — Mark Twain Choice Copy Share Image
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If… — Mark Twain Cat Copy Share Image
“To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it… — Mark Twain Aladdin Copy Share Image
“After breakfast they went whooping and prancing out on the bar, and chased each other round and round, shedding clothes as they… — Mark Twain Best man Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
“Clarence was with me as concerned the revolution, but in a modified way. His idea was a republic, without privileged orders, but… — Mark Twain Family Copy Share Image
“The first glance at the pillow showed me a repulsive sentinel perched upon each end of it--cockroaches as large as peach leaves--fellows… — Mark Twain Bugs Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“One day on the plains he had an angry dispute with one of his wagon-drivers, and both drew their revolvers. But the… — Mark Twain Art Copy Share Image
“Covek je stvorenje nacinjeno na kraju radne nedelje kad se Bog umorio. I cemu je trebalo celi ovaj globus stvarati u zurbi,… — Mark Twain Filosofia Copy Share Image
![“To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/370/mark-twain-22_allan-poe_to-me-edgar-allan-poe-s-prose-is-unreada_175729.png)
