Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy with the chance; the last half consists of the chance without… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre,… — 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
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and… — 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
