Category Quotations

Mark Twain says: “There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the…

Mark Twain says: “A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; …they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; …those they love are…

Mark Twain says: “It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.”

Mark Twain says: “All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they’re a mighty ornery lot. It’s the way they’re raised.”

Mark Twain says: “The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter…”

Mark Twain says: “An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.”

Mark Twain says: “The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.”

Mark Twain says: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of…