Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship… — 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
