Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so. — Mark Twain Ignorance Copy Share Image
You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned… — Mark Twain Education Copy Share Image
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge. — Mark Twain Home Copy Share Image
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to… — Mark Twain Hate Copy Share Image
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.” — Mark Twain Environment Copy Share Image
All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side. — Mark Twain Christianity Copy Share Image
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As near as I can make out, geniuses think they know it all, and so they won't take people's advice, but always… — Mark Twain Genius 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
“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
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
“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
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
A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If we hadn’t our bewitching autumn foliage, we should still have to credit the weather with one feature which compensates for all… — Mark Twain Autumn Copy Share Image
“Under our infamous laws the seducer is not punished, and is not even disgraced, but his victim and all her family and… — Mark Twain Family Copy Share Image
Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it… — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
“Say, do we kill the women too?" "Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on. Kill… — mark twain Books Copy Share Image
“You think you are reading proof, whereas you are merely reading your own mind; your statement of the thing is full of… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
“a square, flat-roofed hovel, neatly frescoed, with its wall-tops gallantly bastioned and turreted with dried camel-refuse, gives to a landscape a feature… — Mark Twain Cats Copy Share Image
“Then the old man got to cussing, and cussed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cussed them all over… — Mark Twain Old man Copy Share Image