All Mark Twain Quotes
- Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. American
- From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to… Any
- I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when… Acquainted
- It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity… Aladdin
- I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union. Cities
- I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I… Any
- Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with. Change
- Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one… Begins
- To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest. Each
- My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example. Avoid
- When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature… Achievement
- I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can. Anything Without
- There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel,… Any
- The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right. Aside
- We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time. Barney
- If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is. Like Showing
- It's so damned humiliating. Damned
- It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some… Dance
- There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the… All
- Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum. Centuries
- The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely… All
- Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty. Always Pleasant
- The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take… Bible
- Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick… All
- I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with… Africa