I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface — 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 have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it!… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned… — 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
One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years… — 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
