All Mark Twain Quotes
- Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together! All
- The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which. Divided
- Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. Build
- Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men. Blind
- The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted. Average
- I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and… Answered
- There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of… Barbarians
- Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass… Adjustable
- Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market? Civilization
- There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level. Adopt
- Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy,… All
- The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of… Apart
- My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. Arrogance
- If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our… Beneficiaries
- Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened. Account
- The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes. Congress
- Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man. Congress
- The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you… Been
- There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people… Alps
- We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us -… Advertise