Mark Twain Quotes, Race Quotes, Humans Quotes

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Race Quotes , Humans Quotes

I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Rights Quotes

Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Dollars Quotes , Use Quotes

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Men Quotes

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Funny Quotes , Christian Quotes

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Heart Quotes , Soul Quotes

What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Country Quotes , Lying Quotes

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Birthday Quotes , Failure Quotes

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Courage Quotes

Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Girl Quotes , Book Quotes

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Passion Quotes , Abstinence Quotes

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Mom Quotes , Baby Quotes

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Communication Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Sleep Quotes , People Quotes

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Children Quotes , Your Children Quotes

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Love Quotes , Funny Quotes

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Champion Quotes

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Wine Quotes

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes