You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs. — Mark Twain Bad habit Copy Share Image
“and so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I could not really complain, because he had only given me his word of honor as security; I ought to have required… — Mark Twain Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it. — Mark Twain Children Copy Share Image
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. — Mark Twain Beer Copy Share Image
It's better to stay silent and look a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt. — Mark Twain Fool Copy Share Image
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. — Mark Twain Genius Copy Share Image
Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the… — Mark Twain Free will Copy Share Image
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment… — Mark Twain Absence Copy Share Image
Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by,… — Mark Twain Artist Copy Share Image
“It know we have a fashion of saying "such and such an event was the turning-point in my life," but we shouldn't… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the… — Mark Twain Authorship Copy Share Image
Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous… — Mark Twain Beauty Copy Share Image
The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average… — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven. — Mark Twain Care Copy Share Image
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. — Mark Twain Differences Copy Share Image
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain Conformity Copy Share Image
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't… — Mark Twain Heirs Copy Share Image
“In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice.” — Mark Twain Father in heaven Copy Share Image
No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself. — Mark Twain Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put… — Mark Twain History Copy Share Image
That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” — Mark Twain Cats Copy Share Image
Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright… — Mark Twain Children Copy Share Image
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are. — Mark Twain Community Copy Share Image
Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that. — Mark Twain Cursing Copy Share Image
A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation. — Mark Twain Cheerfulness Copy Share Image
“Sage went supperless to bed, and tossed and writhed all night upon a shuck mattress that was full of attentive and interested… — Mark Twain Humorous Copy Share Image
Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you. — Mark Twain Education Copy Share Image
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