He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it!… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be. — 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
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! — 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