Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. — Mark Twain Animals Copy Share Image
Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away. — Mark Twain Education Copy Share Image
Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it. — Mark Twain Citizenship Copy Share Image
When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men. — Mark Twain Cursing Copy Share Image
My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found… — Mark Twain Deep down Copy Share Image
If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens… — Mark Twain Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“They swore in the jury, and then the lawyer for the prostitution got up and begun.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet. — Mark Twain Angel Copy Share Image
it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping… — Mark Twain Advantage Copy Share Image
Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have… — Mark Twain Doubt Copy Share Image
My sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love… — Mark Twain Children Copy Share Image
Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We all know about Father Damien, the French priest who voluntarily forsook the world and went to the leper island of Molokai… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in… — Mark Twain Biblical Copy Share Image
“The shades of difference between other people and me serve to make variety and prevent monotony, but that is all; broadly speaking,… — Mark Twain Human race Copy Share Image
“Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement, it is too fleeting;… — Mark Twain Art Copy Share Image
Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and… — Mark Twain Heaven Copy Share Image
[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with… — Mark Twain Friendship Copy Share Image