Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself. — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
“If you think it ain’t dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way, by yourself, in the night, you try it… — Mark Twain Huck-finn Copy Share Image
I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world. — Mark Twain Gun Copy Share Image
The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the… — Mark Twain Chicago Copy Share Image
If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first. — Mark Twain Bird Copy Share Image
“Death is to life as heaven is to hell they're both dependent on each other” — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. — Mark Twain Cat Copy Share Image
Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There isn't time--so brief is life--for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. there is only time for loving--& but an instant, so… — Mark Twain Brief life Copy Share Image
“This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March,… — Mark Twain Customer Copy Share Image
“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but… — Mark Twain Common ground Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they… — Mark Twain Acting Copy Share Image
There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I… — Mark Twain Body Copy Share Image
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The old one is tamer than it was, and can laugh and talk like the parrot, having learned this, no doubt, from… — Mark Twain Long ago Copy Share Image
I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I… — Mark Twain Accidents Copy Share Image
Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“ODE TO STEPHEN DOWLING BOTS, DEC’D And did young Stephen sicken, And did young Stephen die? And did the sad hearts thicken,… — Mark Twain Cold world Copy Share Image
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him… — Mark Twain Admiration Copy Share Image
“Eseldorf was a paradise for us boys. We were not overmuch pestered with schooling. Mainly we were trained to be good Christians;… — Mark Twain Christianity Copy Share Image
Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets… — Mark Twain Admiration Copy Share Image
We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to… — Mark Twain Clothes Copy Share Image
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.” — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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