Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I can help anyone get anything they want out of life. The only problem is that I can't find anyone who knows… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. — 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