I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and… — 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
You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it… — 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
There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was… — 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
