My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear,"… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas… — 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
A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest… — 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
