There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There isn’t a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done. — 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
I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I… — 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
Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been… — 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
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable… — 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
![“Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it…” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/917/mark-twain-22_absorbing_suppose-burglars-had-made-entry-into-thi_281932.jpg)
