The funerals of these, ... do not occur often enough.
Mark Twain
One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.
Mark Twain
When some men discharge an obligation you can hear the report for miles around
Mark Twain
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals
Mark Twain
Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.
Mark Twain
Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it
Mark Twain
One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare
Mark Twain
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories
Mark Twain
I'll take Heaven for the climate and Hell for society.
Mark Twain
All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live
Mark Twain
