“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In making this substitution I had drawn upon the wisdom of a very remote source—the wisdom of my boyhood—for the true statesman… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it!… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is missing from each… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are… — 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
