Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. — Mark Twain Economize Copy Share Image
Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.” — Mark Twain Congress Copy Share Image
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals. — Mark Twain Blind Copy Share Image
isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. — Mark Twain Cowardice Copy Share Image
As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships. — Mark Twain Christmas Copy Share Image
You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.” — Mark Twain Faith Copy Share Image
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics. — Mark Twain Audience Copy Share Image
I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies… — Mark Twain Contempt Copy Share Image
“In making this substitution I had drawn upon the wisdom of a very remote source—the wisdom of my boyhood—for the true statesman… — Mark Twain Wisdom Copy Share Image
When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is different for each… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In this life, Satan, but in another? We shall meet in another, surely?" Then, all tranquilly and soberly, he made the strange… — Mark Twain Life Copy Share Image
If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just… — Mark Twain Discovery Copy Share Image
It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Jabalites … They worship no god; and if we in goodness of heart do send a missionary to show them the… — Mark Twain Humor Copy Share Image
“Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, "Give me masturbation or give me death." Caesar, in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The coat of arms of the human race ought to consist of a man with an axe on his shoulder proceeding toward… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You perceive," he said, "that you have made continual progress. Cain did his murder with a club; the Hebrews did their murders… — Mark Twain End of time Copy Share Image
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly… — Mark Twain Adversaries Copy Share Image
“A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle for bread; they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble… — Mark Twain Grief Copy Share Image
“The Germans have another kind of parenthesis, which they make by splitting a verb in two and putting half of it at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure to follow. — Mark Twain Confidence Copy Share Image
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. — Mark Twain God Copy Share Image
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth. — Mark Twain Crime Copy Share Image