It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does". — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little… — 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
