But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.” — 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
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A person who lives fully is prepared to die at any moment. — 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
The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The reign of Edward VI was a singularly merciful one for those harsh times. Now that we are taking leave of him… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Each time in fiction or in history I meet a well-defined personality I am personally interested in him, for we know each… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is… — 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
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance… — 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
“After a long time and many questions, Satan said, "The spider kills the fly, and eats it; the bird kills the spider… — 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
“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
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only… — 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
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
It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the… — 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
“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
“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
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Stars are good, too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He said if he ever got out this time he wouldn’t ever be a prisoner again, not for a salary.” — 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
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
