To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor. — 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
