The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession. — Mark Twain Brotherhood Copy Share Image
A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience. — Mark Twain Conscience Copy Share Image
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish. — Mark Twain People Copy Share Image
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. — Mark Twain Congress Copy Share Image
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself — Mark Twain Criticism Copy Share Image
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from… — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that. — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the… — Mark Twain Complaints Copy Share Image
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and… — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
“the king he allowed he would drop over to t'other village without any plan, but just trust in Providence to lead him… — Mark Twain Devil Copy Share Image
When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for… — Mark Twain Atlantic ocean Copy Share Image
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations,… — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“To the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had… — Mark Twain Dance Copy Share Image
“There has never been a just [war], never an honorable one--on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I thought all this over for two or three days, and then I reckoned I would see if there was anything in… — Mark Twain Lies Copy Share Image
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand… — Mark Twain Atoms Copy Share Image
We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard. Huckleberry was cordially hated and… — Mark Twain Huckleberry Copy Share Image
“Boggs comes a-tearing along on his horse, whooping and yelling like an Injun, and singing out: "Clear the track, thar. I'm on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full… — Mark Twain Boyhood Copy Share Image
“A dog is "der Hund"; a woman is "die Frau"; a horse is "das Pferd"; now you put that dog in the… — Mark Twain German language Copy Share Image
Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours. — Mark Twain Great moments Copy Share Image
![“There has never been a just [war], never an honorable one--on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful--as usual--will shout for the war. The pulpit will--warily and…” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1f/mark-twain-22_every-man_there-has-never-been-a-just-war-never-an_846521.jpg)
