But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted,… — Mark Twain Avarice Copy Share Image
One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.” — Mark Twain Life Copy Share Image
great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great. — Mark Twain Divorce Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out. — Mark Twain Fool Copy Share Image
“your lip," says he. "You've put on considerable many frills since I been away. I'll take you down” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He told me what it was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would… — Mark Twain Free man Copy Share Image
“Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a… — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's… — Mark Twain Affair Copy Share Image
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in… — Mark Twain English Copy Share Image
As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that… — Mark Twain Boys Copy Share Image
The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out… — Mark Twain Human race Copy Share Image
“In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. (They… — Mark Twain Artist Copy Share Image
Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but… — Mark Twain Citizen Copy Share Image
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally… — Mark Twain Thinkers Copy Share Image
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try. — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done. — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a… — Mark Twain Habit Copy Share Image
Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters. — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial. — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
The two most important days of our life are... The Day you were Born... And the Day you find out Why... — Mark Twain Important days Copy Share Image
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. — Mark Twain Attention Copy Share Image
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The late Bill Nye once said, 'I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. — Mark Twain Language Copy Share Image
“Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe. — Mark Twain Bribe Copy Share Image
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. — Mark Twain Class Copy Share Image
“had studied law an entire week, and then given it up because it was so prosy and tiresome.” — Mark Twain Law Copy Share Image
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