Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance. — Mark Twain Color Copy Share Image
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to… — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
“The truth is, a person's memory has no more sense that his conscience, and no appreciation whatever of values and proportions.” — Mark Twain Conscience Copy Share Image
You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year. — Mark Twain Alive Copy Share Image
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.” — Mark Twain Diamonds Copy Share Image
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That… — Mark Twain Dance Copy Share Image
Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a… — Mark Twain Civilization Copy Share Image
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In both instances [a car coming out of the Himalayas and tobogganning] the sensation was pleasurable--intensely so; it was a sudden and… — Mark Twain Joy Copy Share Image
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell… — Mark Twain Charm Copy Share Image
These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one… — Mark Twain Adultery Copy Share Image
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if… — Mark Twain Funeral Copy Share Image
If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present,… — Mark Twain Attitude Copy Share Image
Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. — Mark Twain Education Copy Share Image
The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried… — Mark Twain Equator Copy Share Image
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her. — Mark Twain Acquaintance Copy Share Image
“My works are like water. The works of the great masters are like wine. But everyone drinks water. - From Mark Twain's… — Mark Twain Inspirational Copy Share Image
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. — Mark Twain Bugs Copy Share Image
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama,… — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do. — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“have been editorially supplied for works that Clemens left untitled. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest? — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter the size of the dog in the fight, rather the size of the fight in the dog.” — Mark Twain Fight In The Dog Copy Share Image
“It hadn’t ever come home to me before, what this thing was that I was doing.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never… — Mark Twain Cat Copy Share Image
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. — Mark Twain Taxes Copy Share Image
“Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.” — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness… — Mark Twain Bears Copy Share Image
You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it. — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it. — Mark Twain Brotherhood Copy Share Image