“Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There was no Pacific railroad in those fine times of ten or twelve years ago—not a single rail of it. I only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Health is a habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When I am come to mine own again, I will always honor little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed… — 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
