Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse. — Mark Twain Care Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Determination Copy Share Image
I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee. — Mark Twain Girl Copy Share Image
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. — Mark Twain Adversity Copy Share Image
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices — Mark Twain Confidence Copy Share Image
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven. — Mark Twain Care Copy Share Image
“T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I… — Mark Twain Deliberate Copy Share Image
I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..! — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. — Mark Twain Forgiveness Copy Share Image
He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever. — Mark Twain Confidence Copy Share Image
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our… — Mark Twain Ambition 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 Balance Copy Share Image
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by… — 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 Cigar Copy Share Image
If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Pretty soon I heard a twig snap down in the dark amongst the trees—something was a stirring. I set still and listened.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds… — Mark Twain America 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 End of time Copy Share Image
This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few… — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives,… — Mark Twain Absence Copy Share Image
“Strange! that you should not have suspected years ago--centuries, ages, eons, ago!--for you have existed, companionless, through all the eternities. Strange, indeed,… — Mark Twain Eternal happiness Copy Share Image
“Polly asked him questions that were full of guile, and very deep—for she wanted to trap him into damaging revealments. Like many… — Mark Twain Dark And Mysterious Copy Share Image
It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else. — Mark Twain Adversity Copy Share Image
The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it. — Mark Twain Capital Copy Share Image
Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon. — Mark Twain Giving Copy Share Image
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist — Mark Twain Optimism Copy Share Image
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