“Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.” — Mark Twain Life Copy Share Image
That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her. — Mark Twain Autograph 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 Communication Copy Share Image
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. — Mark Twain Lightning Copy Share Image
It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret… — Mark Twain Failure Copy Share Image
There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. — Mark Twain Dog Copy Share Image
Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot… — Mark Twain Approval Copy Share Image
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus. — Mark Twain Communication Copy Share Image
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Oh, go to bed!" Dan said that, and went away. "Oh, yes, it's all very well to say go to bed when… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands… — Mark Twain Book Copy Share Image
In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I… — Mark Twain Age Copy Share Image
“Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it,… — Mark Twain Heart ache Copy Share Image
I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled… — Mark Twain Desert Copy Share Image
It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are… — Mark Twain Differences Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls… — Mark Twain Access Copy Share Image
“by and by it got sort of lonesome, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current… — Mark Twain Better way Copy Share Image
You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away)… — Mark Twain Curiosity Copy Share Image
“Damascus, is simply an oasis, that is what it is. For four thousand years its waters have not gone dry or its… — Mark Twain Damascus Copy Share Image
Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining… — Mark Twain Alive Copy Share Image
“Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government,… — Mark Twain Government Copy Share Image
I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill,… — Mark Twain Adults Copy Share Image
“There was a slight noise from the direction of the dim corner where the ladder was. It was the king descending. I… — Mark Twain Heroism Copy Share Image
“It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and… — Mark Twain Faith Copy Share Image
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time… — Mark Twain Alive Copy Share Image