Mark Twain

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through…

— Mark Twain

“We were on the north shore. There, the rocks on the bottom are sometimes gray, sometimes white. This gives the marvelous transparency…

— Mark Twain

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I…

— Mark Twain

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet,…

— Mark Twain

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

— Mark Twain

“MONDAY morning found Tom Sawyer miserable. Monday morning always found him so—because it began another week's slow suffering in school. He generally…

— Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

— Mark Twain

“Under our infamous laws the seducer is not punished, and is not even disgraced, but his victim and all her family and…

— Mark Twain

It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those…

— Mark Twain

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

— Mark Twain

“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Mark Twain”

— Mark Twain

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

— Mark Twain

“Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.”

— Mark Twain

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the…

— Mark Twain

Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

— Mark Twain

Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to…

— Mark Twain

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

— Mark Twain

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

— Mark Twain

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”

— Mark Twain

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

— Mark Twain

“All right, then, I'll go to hell" - and tore it up.”

— Mark Twain

I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in…

— Mark Twain

“Mark Twain, cynical about so much else, has a particular reverence in the Holy Land for "sitting where a god has stood".…

— Mark Twain

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

— Mark Twain

“Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the South, and I’ve lived in the…

— Mark Twain