You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear,"… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — 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
One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years… — 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
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have… — 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
![“This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for forty-four years. . . . [Footnote: Roughing It is dedicated to Higbie.] . . . I shall allow myself the privilege of copying his punctuation and his…” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c2/mark-twain-22_ancient_this-morning-arrives-a-letter-from-my-an_1751606.jpg)
