All Mark Twain Quotes
- 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
- Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a… Absolutely
- A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable… Admiral
- It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals. Acquire
- The secret of making progress is to get started. Get Started
- To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich. Additional
- Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad. All
- I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I… Been
- I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so… Any
- Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value. Better
- Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book… Asset