Home » Mark Twain Mark Twain Mark Twain American - writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer 1 Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. Mark Twain Joy, Humor, Heaven Add to Collection 2 To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. Mark Twain Good, Trouble, Others Add to Collection 3 Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. Mark Twain Truth, Possibilities, Stick Add to Collection 4 What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. Mark Twain Woman, Earth, People Add to Collection 5 Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so. Mark Twain Truth, Truth Is, Nothing Add to Collection 6 It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. Mark Twain America, Find, Wonderful Add to Collection 7 How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before. Mark Twain Good, Lucky, Said Add to Collection 8 Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. Mark Twain Work, Body, Play Add to Collection 9 I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. Mark Twain Know, Said, Answer Add to Collection 10 Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. Mark Twain Book, Own, Discover Add to Collection 11 It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Mark Twain Man, Animal, Dumb Add to Collection 12 A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. Mark Twain Time, Man, Right Add to Collection 13 The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. Mark Twain Perfect, Matters, Opinion Add to Collection 14 Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. Mark Twain Education, Consists, Mainly Add to Collection 15 I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.' Mark Twain Life, Together, My Life Add to Collection 16 Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. Mark Twain Politics, Real, Principles Add to Collection 17 Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. Mark Twain Fight, People, Never Add to Collection 18 In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had. Mark Twain Heart, Good, Ignorant Add to Collection 19 The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. Mark Twain Pause, May, Right Add to Collection 20 I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. Mark Twain Man, Damn, Way Add to Collection 21 It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. Mark Twain Best, Horse, Think Add to Collection 22 It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected. Mark Twain Lie, Better, Belong Add to Collection 23 Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation. Mark Twain Marriage, Ideas, Union Add to Collection 24 Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. Mark Twain Birth, Why, Person Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next › last »
