I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in… — 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
Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to… — 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
