I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the… — 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
![“This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for forty-four years. . . . [Footnote: Roughing It is dedicated to Higbie.] . . . I shall allow myself the privilege of copying his punctuation and his…” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c2/mark-twain-22_ancient_this-morning-arrives-a-letter-from-my-an_1751606.jpg)
