I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..! — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking! — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. — 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