Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them --… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing… — 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
He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Man is a marvelous curiosity … he thinks he is the Creator’s pet … he even believes the Creator loves him; has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards. — 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
