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
I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The most important days in your life are the day you were born........and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American. — 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
