Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“But as soon as one is at rest in this world off he goes on something else to worry about.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity-- Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep - but an intruder came, now, that would not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the… — 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
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