Produced by David Widger
QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM MARK TWAIN
QUOTATIONS FROM MARK TWAIN
SOME OF THE EDITOR'S FAVORITES
Aim and object of the law and lawyers was to defeat justice
All life seems to be sacred except human life
Always trying to build a house by beginning at the top
Believed it; because she desired to believe it
Best intentions and the frailest resolution
But it is an ill-wind that blows nobody good
But there are liars everywhere this year
Cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want
Children were clothed in nothing but sunshine
Contempt of Court on the part of a horse
Fertile in invention and elastic in conscience
Fun--but of a mild type
Grief that is too deep to find help in moan or groan or outcry
Haughty humility
I was not scared, but I was considerably agitated
I had a delicacy about going home and getting thrashed
If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank
Imagination to help his memory
Invariably allowed a half for shrinkage in his statements
It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing
It is easier to stay out than get out
It had cost something to upholster these women
Keg of these nails--of the true cross
Let me take your grief and help you carry it
Life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to
Man was not a liar he only missed it by the skin of his teeth
Money is most difficult to get when people need it most
Native canoe is an irresponsible looking contrivance
No people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined ones
No nation occupies a foot of land that was not stolen
Nothing that glitters is gold
Notion that he is less savage than the other savages
Nursed his woe and exalted it
Ostentatious of his modesty
Otherwise they would have thought I was afraid, which I was
People talk so glibly of "feeling," "expression," "tone,"
Pity is for the living, Envy is for the dead