The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..! — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the South, and I’ve lived in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and… — 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
Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home"… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead… — 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
