Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. — 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
A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — 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
The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Man is a marvelous curiosity … he thinks he is the Creator’s pet … he even believes the Creator loves him; has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. — 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
