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
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
When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens… — 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
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
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
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
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell… — 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
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
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
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
The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence;… — 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
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
