Mark Twain

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

Mark Twain

Between believing a thing and thinking you know is only a small step and quickly taken.

Mark Twain

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

Mark Twain

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man-the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Mark Twain

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

Mark Twain

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Mark Twain

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

Mark Twain

But I… never could make a good impromptu speech without several hours to prepare it.

Mark Twain

But in this country we have one great privilege which they don’t have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That’s the finest asset we’ve got – the ballot box.

Mark Twain

But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.

Mark Twain