... 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
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink. — 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
Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity-- Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping… — 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
