Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been… — 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
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
Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to… — 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
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a… — 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
