Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be… — Mark Twain Circumstance Copy Share Image
Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht… — Mark Twain Dollars Copy Share Image
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other. — Mark Twain Gratify Copy Share Image
You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices. — Mark Twain Integrity Copy Share Image
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. — Mark Twain Care Copy Share Image
“A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will… — Mark Twain Animals Copy Share Image
“I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have… — Mark Twain Being honest Copy Share Image
“Often, as we lay on our faces, a granite boulder, as large as a village church, would start out of the bottom… — Mark Twain Danger Copy Share Image
We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He would be a consul no doubt by and by, at some foreign port, of the language of which he was ignorant;… — Mark Twain Satire Copy Share Image
“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a… — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
“But the "celebrate" was an astonishing disappointment to me. If he had been behind a screen I should have supposed they were… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“His hair was short and parted accurately in the middle, and he had all the look of an American person who would… — Mark Twain Humor Copy Share Image
Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Architecture Copy Share Image
“Yes, we were sold at auction, like swine. In a big town and an active market we should have brought a good… — Mark Twain Investing Copy Share Image
“I will conclude this chapter with a remark that I am sincerely proud to be able to make—and glad, as well, that… — Mark Twain Eleventh hour Copy Share Image
Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their… — Mark Twain Birth Copy Share Image
In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover… — Mark Twain Adventure Copy Share Image
I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography. — Mark Twain Autobiography Copy Share Image
“Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand — Mark Twain Appetite Copy Share Image
No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up… — Mark Twain Atheist Copy Share Image
“Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter. — Mark Twain Data Copy Share Image
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Almost every convert runs the risk of catching our civilization... I compassionate missionary, leave China! come home and convert these Christians!” — Mark Twain Christians Copy Share Image
The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to… — Mark Twain Grief Copy Share Image
The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate. — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
