To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Your country and mine is an interesting one, but there is nothing there that is half so interesting as the human mind.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The governor had made up his mind to one thing: Joan was either a witch or a saint, and he meant to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The reign of Edward VI was a singularly merciful one for those harsh times. Now that we are taking leave of him… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
After a few months' acquaintance with Europeancoffee, one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are 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
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
