The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so. — Mark Twain Ignorance Copy Share Image
It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might. — Mark Twain Believer Copy Share Image
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with… — Mark Twain Friend Copy Share Image
“Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light… — Mark Twain Confidence Copy Share Image
“he hoped she would be happy, and never regret having driven her poor boy out into the unfeeling world to suffer and… — Mark Twain Heart Copy Share Image
“And who has prayed for Satan? In eight hundred years, who has had the common decency to pray for the one sinner… — Mark Twain Common decency Copy Share Image
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through… — Mark Twain Friend Copy Share Image
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe… — Mark Twain Acquaintance Copy Share Image
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Nothing exists; all is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no… — Mark Twain Astronomy Copy Share Image
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable… — Mark Twain Comedies Copy Share Image
“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and… — Mark Twain Nobility Copy Share Image
“It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of… — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
“One must make allowances for a parental instinct that has been starving for twenty-five or thirty years. It is famished, it is… — Mark Twain Old couple Copy Share Image
Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare. A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, A… — Mark Twain Blue Copy Share Image
Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
“The coyote is a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton, with a gray wolfskin stretched over it, a tolerably bushy tail that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I never let my schoolin' interfere with my learnin' "___Mark Twain” — Mark Twain Education Copy Share Image
“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.” — Mark Twain Enlightening Copy Share Image
Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
