It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. — 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
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them --… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep… — 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
