Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise... — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person… — 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
