Quotes and Images From The Works of Mark Twain

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 Predominance of the imagination over the judgment Profound respect for chastity—in other people Prosperity is the best protector of principle Received with a large silence that suggested doubt Road, which did not seem to know its own mind exactly Room to turn around in, but not to swing a cat Scenery in California requires distance Seventy is old enough—after that, there is too much risk Sleep that heals all heart-aches and ends all sorrows Slept, if one might call such a condition by so strong a name Smell about them which is peculiar but not entertaining Takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds To a delicate stomach even imaginary smoke can convey damage Tourists showing how things ought to be managed Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness Uncomplaining impoliteness Very pleasant man if you were not in his way Virtuous to the verge of eccentricity Wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions We ought never to do wrong when people are looking We must create, a public opinion, said Senator Dilworthy Well provided with cigars and other necessaries of life What's a fair wind for us is a head wind to them Whichever one they get is the one they want Worth while to get tired out, because one so enjoys resting Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been Your absence when you are present