Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its… — 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
