If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian. — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. — Mark Twain Confidence Copy Share Image
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. — Mark Twain Copyright law Copy Share Image
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. — Mark Twain April Copy Share Image
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for. — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
“There are times when I would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
“Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it,… — Mark Twain Heart ache Copy Share Image
I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled… — Mark Twain Desert Copy Share Image
It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are… — Mark Twain Differences Copy Share Image
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Oh, go to bed!" Dan said that, and went away. "Oh, yes, it's all very well to say go to bed when… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
“All the first years, their only question had been -- asked with beseechings and tears that might have moved stone, in time,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The idea of you lynching anybody! It's amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! Because… — Mark Twain Lynching Copy Share Image
I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who… — Mark Twain Apprentice Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it… — Mark Twain Action Copy Share Image
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to… — Mark Twain Boys Copy Share Image
“In time, the Deity perceived that death was a mistake; a mistake, in that it was insufficient; insufficient, for the reason that… — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
“I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those… — Mark Twain Alive Copy Share Image
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. — Mark Twain Provocative Copy Share Image
You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would. — Mark Twain Community Copy Share Image
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image