“Australian History: … does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“SO endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Mark Twain, cynical about so much else, has a particular reverence in the Holy Land for "sitting where a god has stood".… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Each time in fiction or in history I meet a well-defined personality I am personally interested in him, for we know each… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We made many trips to the lake after that, and had many a hair-breadth escape and blood-curdling adventure which will never be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is full of interest, it has noble poetry in it and some clever fables and some blood drenched history, some good… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put… — 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
![“All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures — an Eiffel Tower of artificialities rising sky-high from a very flat and very thin foundation of inconsequential facts.” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/64f/mark-twain-22_eiffel-tower_all-the-rest-of-shakespeare-s-vast-histo_2232027.jpg)
