Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath. — 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
A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances. — 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
It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret… — 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
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
To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he… — 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
But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no… — 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
When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the… — 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
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them… — 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
We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons. — 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
I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography. — 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
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it. — 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 minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name… — 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
![“If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78e/mark-twain-22_dead_if-they-the-dead-should-speak-it-would-b_285979.png)
