An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music. — Mark Twain Ecstasy Copy Share Image
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage. — Mark Twain Bigotry Copy Share Image
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety. — Mark Twain Anxiety Copy Share Image
Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again. — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land. — Mark Twain American imperialism Copy Share Image
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Blossoms Copy Share Image
India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. — Mark Twain Gods Copy Share Image
There isn't time--so brief is life--for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. there is only time for loving--& but an instant, so… — Mark Twain Brief life Copy Share Image
“This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March,… — Mark Twain Customer Copy Share Image
“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but… — Mark Twain Common ground Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they… — Mark Twain Acting Copy Share Image
It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking… — Mark Twain Dream Copy Share Image
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all… — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
“Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? No sane man can… — Mark Twain Happiness Copy Share Image
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a… — Mark Twain Awareness Copy Share Image
“Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep - but an intruder came, now, that would not… — Mark Twain Boys Copy Share Image
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently… — Mark Twain Blind Copy Share Image
All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain. — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes. — Mark Twain Congress Copy Share Image
“Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.” — Mark Twain Amor Copy Share Image
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all. — Mark Twain Life Copy Share Image
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go! — Mark Twain Fair Copy Share Image
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. — Mark Twain Achievement Copy Share Image
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image