If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - unless he purposely shut… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
