The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking… — 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
Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything.… — 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
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