Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.' — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“THANKSGIVING DAY. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do… — 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
