All Mark Twain Quotes
- In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with… Austria
- I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words. Abandon
- If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish… Appointed
- Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that! Afraid
- It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering… Assures
- As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not… America
- More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain. Authorised
- Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. Brings
- Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably… All
- We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain. Cain
- If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would… All
- The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse… Adopt
- It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would… All
- ...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or… Administration
- You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning,… Apply
- The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature.… All
- An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans. American
- The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin] Banging
- You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it. Age
- The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between… Acts