Mark Twain

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

Mark Twain

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

Mark Twain

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

Mark Twain

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

Mark Twain

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

Mark Twain

Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

Mark Twain

Dance like nobody’s looking.

Mark Twain

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.

Mark Twain

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

Mark Twain

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can’t pray a lie – I found that out.

Mark Twain