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
The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. — 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
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone . — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — 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
