Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value. — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
