“You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.-- Mark Twain — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Death is to life as heaven is to hell they're both dependent on each other” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the… — 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… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We shall remember … Damascus, the "Pearl of the East", the pride of Syria, the fabled garden of Eden, the home of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is lead in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You are not you--you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Ah, Antonio, it IS the noblest sport that ever was. I would give a year of my life to see it. Is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Just in this one matter lies the main charm of life in Europe—comfort. In America, we hurry—which is well; but when the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In the common walks of life, with what delightful emotions does the youthful mind look forward to some anticipated scene of festivity!… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is my prayer, it is my longing, that we may pass from this life together—a longing which shall never perish from… — 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
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
![“Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it…” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/917/mark-twain-22_absorbing_suppose-burglars-had-made-entry-into-thi_281932.jpg)
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