Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact!” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Expression, expression is the thing - in art. I do not care what it expresses, and I cannot most always sometimes tell,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the… — 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
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down… — 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
“This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any cause that will tickle… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There are not books enough on earth to contain the record of the prophecies Indians and other unauthorized parties have made; but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time, he brought… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn… — 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
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I know now that all that glitters is not gold... However, I still go underrating men of gold, and glorifying men of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening,love like you've ever been hurt,dance like nobody's watching.And live like it's heaven on earth — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is my prayer, it is my longing, that we may pass from this life together—a longing which shall never perish from… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Nature has no originality--I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has… — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
