No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is… — 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
