High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more,… — 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
Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“My works are like water. The works of the great masters are like wine. But everyone drinks water. - From Mark Twain's… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The crowd swarmed together and followed him at a distance, talking excitedly and asking questions and finding out the facts. Finding out… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Everybody has heard of the great Heidelberg Tun, and most people have seen it, no doubt. It is a wine-cask as big… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it. — 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
