Should Quotes by Mark Twain

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

— Mark Twain

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

— Mark Twain

It were not best that we should all think alike.

— Mark Twain

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

— Mark Twain

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

— Mark Twain

...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

— Mark Twain

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

— Mark Twain

If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

— Mark Twain

The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

— Mark Twain

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have…

— Mark Twain

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

— Mark Twain

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are…

— Mark Twain

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

— Mark Twain

Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

— Mark Twain

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in…

— Mark Twain

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to…

— Mark Twain

I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to…

— Mark Twain

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material…

— Mark Twain

If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They…

— Mark Twain

You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities,…

— Mark Twain

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to…

— Mark Twain

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also…

— Mark Twain

I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man…

— Mark Twain

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we…

— Mark Twain

A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them…

— Mark Twain

Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a…

— Mark Twain

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we…

— Mark Twain

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone…

— Mark Twain

I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they…

— Mark Twain

For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his…

— Mark Twain

Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking…

— Mark Twain

I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical…

— Mark Twain

You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

— Mark Twain

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

— Mark Twain

If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

— Mark Twain

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically…

— Mark Twain

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

— Mark Twain

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care…

— Mark Twain

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and…

— Mark Twain

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

— Mark Twain