Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the… — 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… — 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
And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel… — 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
“Man is a marvelous curiosity … he thinks he is the Creator’s pet … he even believes the Creator loves him; has… — 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
The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
