I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with… — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There isn’t a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights.” — Mark Twain Arrogance Copy Share Image
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done… — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals. — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down… — Mark Twain Blessed Copy Share Image
...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of… — Mark Twain Achievement Copy Share Image
The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive… — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them,… — Mark Twain Army Copy Share Image
I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
“Now then, in the earth these people cannot stand much church -- an hour and a quarter is the limit, and they… — Mark Twain Nature Copy Share Image
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have… — Mark Twain Brain Copy Share Image
“Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony… — Mark Twain Achievement Copy Share Image
If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits… — Mark Twain Advertising Copy Share Image
I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Así, pues, le dije: —Ya sabes, Tom, que no sirvo ni para limpiarte los zapatos. Pero no importa: Dios todopoderoso nos ha… — Mark Twain Amor Copy Share Image
“SO endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
“Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had… — Mark Twain Politics Copy Share Image
“one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine.” — Mark Twain Boys Copy Share Image
Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel… — Mark Twain Care Copy Share Image
“How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact!” — Mark Twain Blind Copy Share Image
A lie can travel half-way around the world, while the truth is still putting on it's shoes. — Mark Twain Around the world Copy Share Image
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
“Jim he couldn't see no sense in the most of it, but he allowed we was white folks and knowed better than… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to… — Mark Twain Dream Copy Share Image
The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close. — Mark Twain Creativity Copy Share Image
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction. — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars. — Mark Twain Liars Copy Share Image
A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There have been daring people in the world who claimed that Fenimore Cooper could write English, but they are all dead now.” — Mark Twain Bad reviews Copy Share Image
There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends. — Mark Twain Best friend Copy Share Image
