Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It would ’a’ been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; for what you want, above all things, on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Satan must have been pretty simple, even according to the New Testament, or he wouldn't have led Christ up on a high… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and… — 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