It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“One must make allowances for a parental instinct that has been starving for twenty-five or thirty years. It is famished, it is… — 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
