When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In time, the Deity perceived that death was a mistake; a mistake, in that it was insufficient; insufficient, for the reason that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“this is the only ship going east this time of the year, but there's a thousand coming west—what's a fair wind for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Summer is the time when it is too hot to do the job that it was too cold to do last winter.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I don't have time to write you a short letter, so I'm writing you a long one instead.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being… — 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
