Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material… — 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
Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like… — 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
