The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as… — 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
