A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Image
