Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well. — 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
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
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
