Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that… — 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… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe &… — 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
I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so-… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the… — 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
We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the… — 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
But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being… — 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
Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a… — 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