“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.” — Mark Twain Civilization Copy Share Image
“Well, everybody does it that way, Huck." "Tom, I am not everybody.” — Mark Twain Inspiring Copy Share Image
There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life. — Mark Twain Exercise Copy Share Image
“he could be suspected of knowing anything about the murder, but still he could not be comfortable in the midst of this… — Mark Twain Gossip Copy Share Image
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene… — Mark Twain Belonging Copy Share Image
Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed. — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made. — Mark Twain Law Copy Share Image
“People always more and more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not… — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than… — Mark Twain Education Copy Share Image
“Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and… — Mark Twain Discovery Copy Share Image
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than the things you did do.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I begin to see that a man’s got to be in his own Heaven to be happy.” “Perfectly correct,” says he. “Did… — Mark Twain Heaven Copy Share Image
“she makes me wash, they make me comb all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed... the widder [widow]… — Mark Twain Widow Copy Share Image
I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none… — Mark Twain Authentic happiness Copy Share Image
“A man who goes around with a prophecy-gun ought never to get discouraged: if he will keep up his heart and fire… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material… — Mark Twain Advancement Copy Share Image
“I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
“A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to… — Mark Twain Children Copy Share Image
As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
“The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He will leave Bibles to eat bricks, he will leave bricks to eat bottles, he will leave bottles to eat clothing, he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As regards his health--and the rest of the things--the average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and… — Mark Twain Average man Copy Share Image
“People who do not read have no advantage over those who can not read.” — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image