Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue. — 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
