great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it… — 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
I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
People who always feel jolly, no matter where they are or what happens to themwho have the organ of hope preposterously developedwho… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to… — 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
