Mark Twain

Mark Twain: The man who...

Mark Twain: The man who...

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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Mark Twain: We have no...

Mark Twain: We have no...

We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business...

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Mark Twain: The art of...

Mark Twain: The art of...

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

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Mark Twain: We write frankly...

Mark Twain: We write frankly...

We write frankly and freely but then we modify'' before we print.

Source: Life on...

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Mark Twain: Hain't we got...

Mark Twain: Hain't we got...

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any...

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Mark Twain: It was wonderful...

Mark Twain: It was wonderful...

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been still more wonderful to miss it.

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Mark Twain: You can't depend...

Mark Twain: You can't depend...

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Source: In...

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Mark Twain: Why is it...

Mark Twain: Why is it...

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person...

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Mark Twain: Work consists of...

Mark Twain: Work consists of...

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to...

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Mark Twain: Keep away from...

Mark Twain: Keep away from...

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you...

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Mark Twain: A big leather-bound...

Mark Twain: A big leather-bound...

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken...

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Mark Twain: The fact that...

Mark Twain: The fact that...

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that...

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Mark Twain: Wit is the...

Mark Twain: Wit is the...

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their marriage were not perceived to have any...

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Mark Twain: In the weltering...

Mark Twain: In the weltering...

In the weltering hell of the Moorooroo plain
The Yatala Wangary withers and dies,
And the Worrow Wanilla,...

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Mark Twain: Many a small...

Mark Twain: Many a small...

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Source: In...

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Mark Twain: There comes a...

Mark Twain: There comes a...

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for...

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Mark Twain: India has 2,000,000...

Mark Twain: India has 2,000,000...

India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only...

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Mark Twain: An Englishman is...

Mark Twain: An Englishman is...

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things...

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Mark Twain: She was not...

Mark Twain: She was not...

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of...

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Mark Twain: Only kings, editors,...

Mark Twain: Only kings, editors,...

Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial we.

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