I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety. — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns. — Mark Twain Heart Copy Share Image
“You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.” — Mark Twain Disappointed Copy Share Image
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; — Mark Twain Calamity Copy Share Image
It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Because in my nature I have always run to pie, whilst in his nature he has always run to mystery.” — Mark Twain Mystery Copy Share Image
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain Arrogance Copy Share Image
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad… — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
“It is full of interest, it has noble poetry in it and some clever fables and some blood drenched history, some good… — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
“The Church still prizes the Moral Sense as man's noblest asset today, although the Church knows God had a distinctly poor opinion… — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I never spent so pleasant a month before, or bade any… — Mark Twain Maui Copy Share Image
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human… — Mark Twain Action Copy Share Image
Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her… — Mark Twain Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Držite se podalje od ljudi koji žele omalovažiti vaše ambicije. Sitne duše to rade svo vreme, a samo zaista veliki ljudi ulivaju… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“God knows I never had shade nor shadow of a doubt of my petrified and indestructible honesty until now—and now, under the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Hamlet’s soliloquy, you know; the most celebrated thing in Shakespeare. Ah, it’s sublime, sublime! Always fetches the house. I haven’t got it… — Mark Twain Hamlet Copy Share Image
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Uvjerio sam se, naime, o neoborivoj činjenici da nijedan narod na svijetu, kraj svih ljubaznih, praznih riječi, filozofiranja o protivnom, još nikada… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have… — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
“They were nothing but ravens—I knew that—what they thought of me could be a matter of no consequence—and yet when even a… — Mark Twain Animals Copy Share Image
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. — Mark Twain Continuous improvement Copy Share Image
“Prophecy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.” — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
“Make the best o' things that smoothes people's roads the most..” — Mark Twain Best things Copy Share Image
