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… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Listen — and do not doubt me, for I shall speak the exact truth. Howard Tracy, I am no more an earl’s… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Now what has kept your leaves so green, Arbre Fée de Bourlemont? The children's tears! They brought each grief, And you did… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Hang the boy, can't I never learn anything? Ain't he played tricks on me enough like that for me to be looking… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He has one code of morals for himself, and quite another for his children. He requires his children to deal justly—and gently—with… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story—that is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When a man goes back to look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: There is no instance of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When I am come to mine own again, I will always honor little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Now, children, I want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all your… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love… — 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
