The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only… — 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
