Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the… — 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
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to… — 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
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination… — 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
