You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In your country and mine we should have the privilege of making fun of this kind of morality, but it would be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in… — 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
