Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man… — 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
