Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.
Mark Twain
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
Aphorist
Author
Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Teacher
Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
Consist
Morals
Commercial
Moral
Political
Ecclesiastical
More quotes by Mark Twain
The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.
Mark Twain
Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.
Mark Twain
Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.
Mark Twain
Talent without work is useless, thank God
Mark Twain
Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.
Mark Twain
What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
Mark Twain
I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.
Mark Twain
There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.
Mark Twain
Start it at no particular time of your life wander at your free will all over your life talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.
Mark Twain
Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.
Mark Twain
The best of us would rather be popular than right.
Mark Twain
Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.
Mark Twain
I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.
Mark Twain
The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.
Mark Twain
In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere they date from it.
Mark Twain
Never tell a lie-except for practice.
Mark Twain
The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.
Mark Twain
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.
Mark Twain
Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
Mark Twain