If Christ were here now, there is one thing he would not be a Christian. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders… — 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
Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in… — 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
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
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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