It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed. — Mark Twain Audience Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information. — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it. — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat” — Mark Twain Cats Copy Share Image
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was… — Mark Twain Being rich Copy Share Image
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. — Mark Twain Conformity Copy Share Image
What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do… — Mark Twain 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
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable… — Mark Twain Getting ahead Copy Share Image
“Then pretty soon Sherburn sort of laughed; not the pleasant kind, but the kind that makes you feel like when you are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because… — Mark Twain Effort Copy Share Image
I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this… — Mark Twain California Copy Share Image
You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I… — Mark Twain Alphas Copy Share Image
Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“it was as bright as glory, and you'd have a little glimpse of tree-tops a-plunging about away off yonder in the storm,… — Mark Twain Thunder Copy Share Image
“He has one code of morals for himself, and quite another for his children. He requires his children to deal justly—and gently—with… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first… — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;… — Mark Twain Accomplishment Copy Share Image
When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s… — Mark Twain Baby Copy Share Image
A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he… — Mark Twain Aristocracy Copy Share Image
The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter. — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
