If you wish to inflict a heartless and malignant…

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

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

“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

It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.

— Mark Twain

“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”

— Mark Twain

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

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

— Mark Twain

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

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

“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

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

— Mark Twain

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

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

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

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

— Mark Twain