If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if… — 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
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very… — 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
