All Mark Twain Quotes
- It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the… Admired
- Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success. Secret
- By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each… Capriciously
- I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given… Democracy
- Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. Acquaintance
- If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance. Ashamed
- It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a… Dream
- As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is… Ant
- The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and… Base
- My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest. Conspicuously
- More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat. Cutting
- To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame… Anybody
- Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season. Account
- Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized. Babe
- Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. Dissipation
- You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom. Custom
- Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. Care
- I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them. All
- There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. Inspirational
- A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture. Art
- We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege. Almighty
- My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame. Animal
- Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period. Activity
- An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth. Conscience
- A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the… Abilities