All Mark Twain Quotes
- There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. Among
- If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word… Animal
- In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without… Absorbing
- Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other. Astound
- If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and… Animal
- Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men… Accounts
- Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human… Able
- The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. Atheist
- We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. Atheism
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too,… Achievement
- Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town? All
- To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French. Angel
- You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking… Absurd
- I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the… Approve
- Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. Achievement
- Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. Carpe Diem
- Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it. Always Something
- I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but… Any
- Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me. Bees
- When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors… Along
- How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with… Charity
- I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that… Along
- New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin. Criminal
- A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits… Ample
- Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten. Chance