Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his… — 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
