Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven. — Mark Twain Happiness Copy Share Image
“I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life … most of which has never happened.” — Mark Twain Pain Copy Share Image
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration. — Mark Twain Cooking Copy Share Image
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to… — Mark Twain Desire Copy Share Image
Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer… — Mark Twain Alcohol Copy Share Image
“It is my prayer, it is my longing, that we may pass from this life together—a longing which shall never perish from… — Mark Twain End of time Copy Share Image
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians… — Mark Twain Body Copy Share Image
“I once heard a grouty northern invalid say that a coconut tree might be poetical, possibly it was; but it looked like… — Mark Twain Hawaii Copy Share Image
“Why, an' thou shouldst live a thousand years thou'dst never hear so masterful a cursing. Alack, her art died with her. There… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly.… — Mark Twain Brevity Copy Share Image
You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place. — Mark Twain First place Copy Share Image
Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it. — Mark Twain Government Copy Share Image
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. — Mark Twain Fiction Copy Share Image
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all… — Mark Twain Classics Copy Share Image
On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined. — Mark Twain Dance Copy Share Image
To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter... — Mark Twain Heart Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was… — Mark Twain Bears Copy Share Image
A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship… — Mark Twain Nations Copy Share Image
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“făgăduiala de a nu face un lucru este calea cea mai sigură pentru a fi mereu ispitit să-l faci.” — Mark Twain Amor Copy Share Image
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag. — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
“If You don't read good books, then you are no better than an unlettered Man” — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration. — Mark Twain Death Copy Share Image
One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside — Mark Twain Food Copy Share Image
“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Mark Twain” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness.” — Mark Twain Cruelty Copy Share Image
“But as soon as one is at rest in this world off he goes on something else to worry about.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
