A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? — 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
