“Eh bien! I no see not that that frog has nothing of better than another.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. — Mark Twain Achieve greatness Copy Share Image
“the easiest way to get along in life is to not cause too many quarrels” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it. — Mark Twain Exaggeration Copy Share Image
Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer. — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion. — Mark Twain Funeral Copy Share Image
Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth. — Mark Twain Adventure Copy Share Image
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. — Mark Twain Prayer Copy Share Image
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." [ Mark Twain, a Biography ]” — Mark Twain Humor Copy Share Image
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. — Mark Twain Behind closed doors Copy Share Image
Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you. — Mark Twain Family Copy Share Image
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it… — Mark Twain Aladdin Copy Share Image
“To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If… — Mark Twain Cat Copy Share Image
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is… — Mark Twain Artificiality Copy Share Image
We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing… — Mark Twain Ants Copy Share Image
“Mrs Kerslake:" but if there is no chance of being offered a place at Oxford, surely-?" Simon Kerslake: "Thats not what i… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching—all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a… — Mark Twain Brotherly love Copy Share Image
“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion,… — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Allegiance Copy Share Image
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
“eggs." "You're a liar!" "You're another." "You're a fighting liar and dasn't take it up." "Aw—take a walk!" "Say—if you give me… — Mark Twain Liar Copy Share Image
“And what does it amount to?" said Satan, with his evil chuckle. "Nothing at all. You gain nothing; you always come out… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image