The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. — Mark Twain Comedy 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
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 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
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
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; — Mark Twain Calamity 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
...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
“to make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always… — Mark Twain Free man Copy Share Image
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon… — Mark Twain France Copy Share Image
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,… — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
“Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the South, and I’ve lived in the… — Mark Twain Born and raised Copy Share Image
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we… — Mark Twain Anarchy Copy Share Image
“Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government,… — Mark Twain Government Copy Share Image
I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill,… — Mark Twain Adults Copy Share Image
“There was a slight noise from the direction of the dim corner where the ladder was. It was the king descending. I… — Mark Twain Heroism Copy Share Image
“It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and… — Mark Twain Faith Copy Share Image
You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away)… — Mark Twain Curiosity Copy Share Image
There is no end to the laws, and no beginning to the execution of them — Mark Twain Birth Copy Share Image
I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive. — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment — Mark Twain Experiments Copy Share Image
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” — Mark Twain Loyalty Copy Share Image
