Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster… — 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
