“You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.” — Mark Twain Focus Copy Share Image
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. — Mark Twain Confidence Copy Share Image
Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? — Mark Twain Adventure Copy Share Image
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. — Mark Twain Civilization Copy Share Image
I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. — Mark Twain Inspiration Copy Share Image
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. — Mark Twain Being polite Copy Share Image
To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master. — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
In truth I care little about any party's politicsthe man behind it is the important thing. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that… — Mark Twain Adversity Copy Share Image
The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs. — Mark Twain Aversion Copy Share Image
What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his… — Mark Twain Administration Copy Share Image
“She was as simple-hearted and honest as the day was long, and so she was an easy victim. She gathered together her… — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks… — Mark Twain Consequence Copy Share Image
“It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.… — Mark Twain Confidence Copy Share Image
“There is no regular system of taxation, but when the Emperor or the Bashaw want money, they levy on some rich man,… — Mark Twain Money Copy Share Image
“So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much… — Mark Twain Chronicle Copy Share Image
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government… — Mark Twain American patriotism Copy Share Image
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“And yet, by ingenious contrivance, this gilded minority, instead of being in the tail of the procession where it belonged, was marching… — Mark Twain Procession Copy Share Image
Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who… — Mark Twain Authority Copy Share Image
You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of serpents in those days.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody — Mark Twain Dark Copy Share Image
“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” — Mark Twain Tomorrow Copy Share Image
