We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter... — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Kill the women? No – nobody ever saw anything in the books like that. You fetch them to the cave, and you’re… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching—all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her… — 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
We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them. — 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
