Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. There is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even… — 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
Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it… — 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
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
