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
No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself,… — 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
