A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy with the chance; the last half consists of the chance without… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half of life consists of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German. — 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
Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war,… — 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
