Mark Twain Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes

A better idea than my own is to listen.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Ideas Quotes

There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Christian Quotes , Religious Quotes

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , People Quotes

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Fashion Quotes , Clothes Quotes

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Truth Quotes

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Good Life Quotes , Cancer Quotes

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Sarcastic Quotes , Germany Quotes

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Disrespect Quotes

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Country Quotes , Coins Quotes

There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Sunday Quotes , America Quotes

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Two Quotes , Forever Quotes

What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Rome Quotes , Thrill Quotes

Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Men Quotes

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Class Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Education Quotes , School Quotes

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Determination Quotes , Compliment Quotes

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Life Quotes , Wisdom Experience Quotes

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Life Quotes , Success Quotes

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes