By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man. — Mark Twain Father Copy Share Image
“There is no easy or quick plan to happiness, there is no single spot where you can start. Where you are right… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about. -- Huck Finn” — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
“When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.” — Mark Twain Dog Copy Share Image
In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money. — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands. — Mark Twain Comforting Copy Share Image
“Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush.” — Mark Twain Silence Copy Share Image
A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes… — Mark Twain Childhood Copy Share Image
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! — Mark Twain Atheist Copy Share Image
My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water. — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while. — Mark Twain Happiness Copy Share Image
In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards — Mark Twain Education Copy Share Image
When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself. — Mark Twain Disaster Copy Share Image
“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst. — Mark Twain Daughter Copy Share Image
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in… — Mark Twain Art Copy Share Image
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of… — Mark Twain Heart 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
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other… — Mark Twain Civilization Copy Share Image
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The timid man yearns for full value and asks for a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Its not true that men forget they're married when they see a pretty woman. Just the opposite, thats when they're most painfully… — Mark Twain Marriage Copy Share Image
Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only… — Mark Twain Asylums Copy Share Image
Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Mark Twain. "The truth should never be permitted to stand in the way of a good story.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. — Mark Twain Cat Copy Share Image
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