Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this… — 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
Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to… — 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
When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world… — 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 are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
…try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so."" — 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
