“to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it was because I warn't square; it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We had heard a world of talk about the marvellous beauty of Lake Tahoe, and finally curiosity drove us thither to see… — Mark Twain Beauty Copy Share Image
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma. — Mark Twain Dog Copy Share Image
“El trabajo consiste en lo que el hombre se ve obligado a hacer, y que el juego consiste en lo que el… — Mark Twain Amor Copy Share Image
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity-- Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy… — Mark Twain Advice Copy Share Image
Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts… — Mark Twain All occasions Copy Share Image
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The word Palestine always brought to my mind a vague suggestion of a country as large as the United States. I do… — Mark Twain Israel Copy Share Image
The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency… — Mark Twain Approval Copy Share Image
But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war,… — Mark Twain Boys Copy Share Image
It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make… — Mark Twain Chicago Copy Share Image
I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We had a little slave boy whom we had hired from some one, there in Hannibal. He was from the Eastern Shore… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute… — Mark Twain Community Copy Share Image
“Oh, hold on; there’s plenty of pain here—but it don’t kill. There’s plenty of suffering here, but it don’t last. You see,… — Mark Twain Happiness Copy Share Image
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides,… — Mark Twain Allegiance Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass,… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. — Mark Twain Care Copy Share Image
I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the… — Mark Twain Corruption Copy Share Image
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the… — Mark Twain Conviction Copy Share Image
There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you. — Mark Twain Customer Copy Share Image
The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it. — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does… — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by… — Mark Twain Achievement Copy Share Image
A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather. — Mark Twain Fair weather Copy Share Image
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly. — Mark Twain College Copy Share Image
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in. — Mark Twain Deities Copy Share Image
