There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“People who do not read have no advantage over those who can not read.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to… — 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 trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people — 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
Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A person who lives fully is prepared to die at any moment. — 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
When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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