I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself. — Mark Twain Congress Copy Share Image
I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else. — Mark Twain Lying Copy Share Image
Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin ... — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The 2 most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. — Mark Twain Life Copy Share Image
“diplomacy is simply the name we have agreed to give to lying about national affairs. I” — Mark Twain Diplomacy Copy Share Image
“so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it… — Mark Twain Duty Copy Share Image
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically… — Mark Twain Acquaintance Copy Share Image
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations,… — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“To the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had… — Mark Twain Dance Copy Share Image
There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of… — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
“The choir always tittered and whispered all through service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have… — Mark Twain Choir Copy Share Image
I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the… — Mark Twain Almighty Copy Share Image
“It was a good pup, was that Andrew Jackson, and would have made a name for hisself if he’d lived, for the… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
“It’s the same here as it is on earth—you’ve got to earn a thing, square and honest, before you enjoy it. You… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed… — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
“it don’t make no diference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t got no sense, and just goes for… — Mark Twain Conscience 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
“His wife, Electra, was a capable helpmeet, although—like himself— a dreamer of dreams and a private dabbler in romance. The first thing… — Mark Twain Dreams Copy Share Image
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. — Mark Twain Cry Copy Share Image
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. — Mark Twain Advertising Copy Share Image
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