“Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.” — Mark Twain Life Copy Share Image
That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her. — Mark Twain Autograph Copy Share Image
We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that… — Mark Twain Adversity Copy Share Image
The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs. — Mark Twain Aversion Copy Share Image
“Why, you simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.” — Mark Twain Fire Copy Share Image
Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans. — Mark Twain Mardi gras Copy Share Image
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions. — Mark Twain Bad decision Copy Share Image
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
“to make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always… — Mark Twain Free man Copy Share Image
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand… — Mark Twain Atoms Copy Share Image
“As the boys steadily and monotonously drove the raft toward mid-stream it was no doubt understood that these orders were given only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to… — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
“The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless… — Mark Twain Freedom Copy Share Image
It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when… — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little… — Mark Twain Cry Copy Share Image
“Tom felt that it was time to wake up; this sort of life might be romantic enough, in his blighted condition, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a… — Mark Twain Admiration Copy Share Image
If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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