The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so. — Mark Twain Ignorance Copy Share Image
If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes. — Mark Twain England Copy Share Image
I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. — Mark Twain Foreigners Copy Share Image
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even. — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare. — Mark Twain Country Copy Share Image
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little… — Mark Twain Blasphemy Copy Share Image
“Great books are weighted and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.” — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction. — Mark Twain Destruction Copy Share Image
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable… — Mark Twain Comedies Copy Share Image
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through… — Mark Twain Friend Copy Share Image
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe… — Mark Twain Acquaintance Copy Share Image
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We made many trips to the lake after that, and had many a hair-breadth escape and blood-curdling adventure which will never be… — Mark Twain Adventure Copy Share Image
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie. We can tell them the moment… — Mark Twain Aunts and uncles Copy Share Image
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The reader must not imagine that he is to find in it wisdom, brilliancy, fertility of invention, ingenuity of construction, excellence of… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these… — Mark Twain Bible Copy Share Image
...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
