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
A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings… — 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 led in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a… — 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
I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a… — 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
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had… — 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
