Trust based on honesty is the foundation of strong and bonding relationships. Lead an honest and happy life. — Mark Twain Being strong Copy Share Image
...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing… — Mark Twain Art Copy Share Image
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half of life consists of the… — Mark Twain Chance Copy Share Image
“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found… — Mark Twain Dimensions Copy Share Image
I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I… — Mark Twain Cigar Copy Share Image
“I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock. I laid there in the grass and the cool shade thinking about… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home"… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say… — Mark Twain Education Copy Share Image
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — Mark Twain Balance Copy Share Image
“But the teller of the comic story does not slur the nub; he shouts it at you—every time. And when he prints… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back… — Mark Twain Bounds Copy Share Image
When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“had gradually come to have a realizing sense of the fact that Slade was a man whose heart and hands and soul… — Mark Twain Day and night Copy Share Image
Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the… — Mark Twain Branching out Copy Share Image
The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals. — Mark Twain Art Copy Share Image
“The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time, he brought… — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare — Mark Twain Courage Copy Share Image
“Las personas son como la luna. Siempre tienen un lado oscuro que no enseñan a nadie." Mark Twain” — Mark Twain Amor Copy Share Image
“The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.” — Mark Twain Dream Copy Share Image
I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect. — Mark Twain Fool Copy Share Image
The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. — Mark Twain Great man Copy Share Image
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the… — Mark Twain Anxious Copy Share Image
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
“There are men who cannot hear animals," he said. "And then there are men who cannot hear anything at all.” — Mark Twain Animals Copy Share Image
“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform — (or pause and reflect).” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness — Mark Twain Art Copy Share Image
