You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice,… — 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
Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. — 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
