A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little… — 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
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our… — 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
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle for bread; they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I… — 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
