Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. — Mark Twain Crime Copy Share Image
It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog. — Mark Twain Dog Copy Share Image
“Well, I know. It's jam—that's what it is. Forty times I've said if you didn't let that jam alone I'd skin you.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A body can't be too partic'lar how they talk 'bout these-yer dead people, Tom.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for… — Mark Twain Church Copy Share Image
As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the… — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
“T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have… — Mark Twain Balance Copy Share Image
There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for… — Mark Twain Cooking Copy Share Image
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our… — Mark Twain Ambition Copy Share Image
I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them,… — Mark Twain Astonishment Copy Share Image
To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little… — Mark Twain Country Copy Share Image
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation… — Mark Twain Argument Copy Share Image
“A dog is der Hund the dog; a women is die Frau the wom[an]; a horse is das Pferd, the horse; now… — Mark Twain Dog Copy Share Image
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it… — Mark Twain Heaven Copy Share Image
“Now what has kept your leaves so green, Arbre Fée de Bourlemont? The children's tears! They brought each grief, And you did… — Mark Twain Children Copy Share Image
I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“the sun was up so high when i waked, that i judged it was after eight o’clock. i laid there in the… — Mark Twain Huck-finn Copy Share Image
“Every noun has a gender, and there is no sense or system in the distribution; so the gender of each must be… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat. — Mark Twain Defeat Copy Share Image
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. — Mark Twain Authority Copy Share Image
If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear. — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience. — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
“The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.” Mark Twain” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the… — Mark Twain Enemy Copy Share Image
“Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man he has struck bottom... there is no lower deep… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her… — Mark Twain Cat Copy Share Image
When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring. — Mark Twain Bird Copy Share Image
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. — Mark Twain Achievement Copy Share Image
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom. — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the… — Mark Twain History Copy Share Image
“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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