Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Nature has no originality--I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the gardener with a pride… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for… — 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
