“Life is planned with one principle objective to make you do all the particular things you particularly don't want to do.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I’ve suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A person who lives fully is prepared to die at any moment. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I've had a very difficult life. Fortunately, most of it didn't happen.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Three months of camp life on Lake Tahoe would restore an Egyptian mummy to his pristine vigor, and give him an appetite… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I can help anyone get anything they want out of life. The only problem is that I can't find anyone who knows… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It know we have a fashion of saying "such and such an event was the turning-point in my life," but we shouldn't… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Truly, "seeing is believing" - and many a man lives a long life through, thinking he believes certain universally received and well… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He put his foot on it, and lifted one of the sleeves out with his teeth, and chewed and chewed at it,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“the easiest way to get along in life is to not cause too many quarrels” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.-- Mark Twain — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
