It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough. — 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
My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to… — 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
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam,… — 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