Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again. — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
Richard Wagner: A composer whose music is better than it sounds — Mark Twain Composer Copy Share Image
Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many. — Mark Twain Ageing Copy Share Image
Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. — Mark Twain Assault Copy Share Image
Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life … most of which has never happened.” — Mark Twain Pain Copy Share Image
The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven. — Mark Twain Happiness Copy Share Image
I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration. — Mark Twain Cooking Copy Share Image
After a few months' acquaintance with Europeancoffee, one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the… — Mark Twain Coffee Copy Share Image
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their… — Mark Twain Argument Copy Share Image
The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as… — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability… — Mark Twain Ability Copy Share Image
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or… — Mark Twain Affection Copy Share Image
“We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is… — Mark Twain Fitness Copy Share Image
Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently… — Mark Twain Blind Copy Share Image
“These descriptions do really state the truth- as nearly as the limitations of language will allow. But language is a treacherous thing,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“His wife, Electra, was a capable helpmeet, although—like himself— a dreamer of dreams and a private dabbler in romance. The first thing… — Mark Twain Dreams Copy Share Image
“Well, I will tell you, and you must understand if you can. You belong to a singular race. Every man is a… — Mark Twain Computers Copy Share Image
“Foreordain it? No. The man's circumstances and environment order it. His first act determines the second and all that follow after. But… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union. — Mark Twain Bay area Copy Share Image
I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time. — Mark Twain Cigar Copy Share Image
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