All Mark Twain Quotes
- There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and… Comedy
- The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt. Adopt
- I don't want no better book than what your face is. Better
- Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. Alone
- What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is… Acts
- I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. Instead
- Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be… All
- Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through… Consist
- What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . .… All
- Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time. Any
- I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook… Alike
- I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest… Atheism
- Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living. Best
- The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one;… Advantage
- I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. George
- There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you… Believe
- Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly… Acquisition
- The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide… Decide
- I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. Actually Happened
- The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when… All
- It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get… Enemies
- I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting… Animal
- I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else. Except
- The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. Business
- The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. Animal