In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of… — 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
That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members &… — 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
