I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all… — 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
