Mark-twain Quotes

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the crea...

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I mi...

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these:...

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent ...

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, ...

Wherever he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two -- he ladle...

It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense,...

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

You gwyne to have considerable trouble in yo' life, en considerable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git ...

Looking' his last' upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing 'she' cou...

Loose and forbear!

Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master u...

This river is famed in atrocious song and verse; the most prevalent motif is one which attempts to m...