We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die. — Mark Twain Comedy Copy Share Image
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. — Mark Twain Charm 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
A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the… — Mark Twain Beauty Copy Share Image
We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them. — Mark Twain Focus Copy Share Image
When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business. — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug. — Mark Twain Dutch Copy Share Image
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. — Mark Twain Baby Copy Share Image
“Mere life is a luxury, and the color of the grass, of the flowers, of the sky, the wind in the trees,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking… — Mark Twain Dream Copy Share Image
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds,… — Mark Twain Brave Copy Share Image
We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to… — Mark Twain Beloved Copy Share Image
“Then the cow asked: "What is a mirror?" "It is a hole in the wall," said the cat. "You look in it,… — Mark Twain Beauty Copy Share Image
when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine… — Mark Twain Comfort 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
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction… — Mark Twain Ashamed Copy Share Image
“It seems a pity that the world should throw away so many good things merely because they are unwholesome. I doubt if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I,… — Mark Twain Creativity Copy Share Image
“Now it is true that I could have learned without a teacher, but it would have been risky for me, because of… — Mark Twain Autodidact Copy Share Image
“We shall remember … Damascus, the "Pearl of the East", the pride of Syria, the fabled garden of Eden, the home of… — Mark Twain Damascus Copy Share Image
“implore him to be a merciful ass and trample his duty under foot.” — Mark Twain Responsibility Copy Share Image
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