It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every… — 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
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice.” — 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