The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does". — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve,… — 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
