The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report… — 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
