There are a thousand excuses for failure, but never a good reason. — Mark Twain Excuses Copy Share Image
It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval. — Mark Twain Approval Copy Share Image
How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps! — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so. — Mark Twain Atheism 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
And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking! — Mark Twain Eloquence Copy Share Image
Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it... — Mark Twain God Copy Share Image
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
“The governor had made up his mind to one thing: Joan was either a witch or a saint, and he meant to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal… — Mark Twain Feminism Copy Share Image
The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world… — Mark Twain Bread Copy Share Image
Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then.… — Mark Twain Family Copy Share Image
Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it… — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to… — Mark Twain Brass Copy Share Image
“There’s no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama,… — Mark Twain Drama Copy Share Image
“and a manner so peculiar and romantic, and extraneous, and ad libitum, and heart-searching, that—that—he—he is an impressionist, I presume?" "No," said… — Mark Twain Artist Copy Share Image
“Man is a marvelous curiosity … he thinks he is the Creator’s pet … he even believes the Creator loves him; has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Then, having thus made the Creator responsible for all those pains and diseases and miseries above enumerated, and which he could have… — Mark Twain Creator Copy Share Image
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the… — Mark Twain Anxious Copy Share Image
“They had just docked in Greece and the passengers learned they would be quarantined and not be allowed to go ashore... "It… — Mark Twain Full moon Copy Share Image
“Man is made of dirt - I saw him made. I am not made of dirt. Man is a museum of diseases,… — Mark Twain Racism Copy Share Image
“The guide showed us a coffee-colored piece of sculpture which he said was considered to have come from the hand of Phidias,… — Mark Twain Nature Copy Share Image
“Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles. Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and… — Mark Twain Stranger Copy Share Image
I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it!… — Mark Twain Expression Copy Share Image
I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. — Mark Twain Cigar Copy Share Image
In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true. — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
