We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a… — 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
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man… — 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
