I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The choir always tittered and whispered all through service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Strange! that you should not have suspected years ago--centuries, ages, eons, ago!--for you have existed, companionless, through all the eternities. Strange, indeed,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There was no Pacific railroad in those fine times of ten or twelve years ago—not a single rail of it. I only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story—that is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is a shame that we must continue to use a worthless system because it was good a thousand years ago.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A humorous treatment of the rigid uniformitarian view came from Mark Twain. Although the shortening of the Mississippi River he referred to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“That was thirteen hundred years ago. This is really no improvement upon the work of the Roman augurs. Has the trade of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather. — 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
“In the country neighborhood thereabouts, along the dusty roads, one found at intervals the prettiest little cottage homes, snug and cozy, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You are not you--you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Strange! that you should not have suspected years ago--centuries, ages, eons, ago!--for you have existed, companionless, through all the eternities. Strange, indeed,… — 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
