The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. — 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
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
If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — 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
