All Mark Twain Quotes
- I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive. Cannot Keep
- If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then… Account
- The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment,… Anymore
- And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking! Eloquence
- Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were… Admiration
- When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable. Accustomed
- Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes… All
- It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the… Any
- A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him… Body
- What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. Growth
- This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass… Advertise
- The late Bill Nye once said, 'I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds. Been
- A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps… Circumstance
- I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul… Apparently
- I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust… Believe
- No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise. Conscience
- The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it… All
- Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders... All
- To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology. Add
- ... all the modern inconveniences ... All
- ... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar. Ambitious
- But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go! Fair
- They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. Always Spell
- There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore. Find
- I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education Allow