If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will… — 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
The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;… — 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
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven… — 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
