It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy with the chance; the last half consists of the chance without… — 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
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...and last but not least, reflecting my feelings on proofreading...excuse any pages on my websites that have misspelled words or grammatical errors...I'm… — 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
Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that! — 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
