I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and community have at heart if he would be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his . His was a great… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How rare and wonderfull is that flash of a movement wen we relize that we have discovered a frind — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. But I put… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I've just come to my room, Livy darling, I guess this was the memorable night of my life. By George, I never… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Mark Twain describes how his friend Ralph Keeler introduced him at the start of a lecture: " 'I don't know anything about… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If the reader thinks he is done, now, and that this book has no moral to it, he is in error. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being… — 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
