“that dismal prison house within whose dungeons so many young faces put on the wrinkles of age,” — Mark Twain Prison Copy Share Image
No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and… — Mark Twain Beautiful Copy Share Image
Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer. — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion. — Mark Twain Funeral Copy Share Image
Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth. — Mark Twain Adventure Copy Share Image
It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret… — Mark Twain Failure Copy Share Image
There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a… — Mark Twain Agriculture Copy Share Image
I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside… — Mark Twain Cat Copy Share Image
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.… — Mark Twain Family Copy Share Image
English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Well, mamma, the Indians believed they knew, but now we know they were wrong. By and by it can turn out that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like… — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. — Mark Twain Dog Copy Share Image
Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot… — Mark Twain Approval Copy Share Image
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus. — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
“ADOBE GARAMOND DISPLAY: AKZIDENZ GROTESK COMPOSITOR: INTEGRATED COMPOSITION SYSTEMS, INC. PRINTER AND BINDER: THOMSON-” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see — Mark Twain Blind Copy Share Image
I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it!.. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned… — Mark Twain Education Copy Share Image
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge. — Mark Twain Home Copy Share Image
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to… — Mark Twain Hate Copy Share Image
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.” — Mark Twain Environment Copy Share Image
All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side. — Mark Twain Christianity Copy Share Image
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. — Mark Twain Lightning Copy Share Image
“Everything in moderation except whiskey, and sometimes too much whiskey is just enough.” — Mark Twain Moderation Copy Share Image
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. — Mark Twain Cynical Copy Share Image
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember. — Mark Twain Deep thought Copy Share Image
Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
