We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There are times when I would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“All the first years, their only question had been -- asked with beseechings and tears that might have moved stone, in time,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“After a long time and many questions, Satan said, "The spider kills the fly, and eats it; the bird kills the spider… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There was no Pacific railroad in those fine times of ten or twelve years ago—not a single rail of it. I only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Tom felt that it was time to wake up; this sort of life might be romantic enough, in his blighted condition, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Hang the boy, can't I never learn anything? Ain't he played tricks on me enough like that for me to be looking… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is my prayer, it is my longing, that we may pass from this life together—a longing which shall never perish from… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Stars are good, too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In time, the Deity perceived that death was a mistake; a mistake, in that it was insufficient; insufficient, for the reason that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Summer is the time when it is too hot to do the job that it was too cold to do last winter.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future. — 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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