Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. — Mark Twain Happiness Copy Share Image
“I've had a very difficult life. Fortunately, most of it didn't happen.” — Mark Twain Difficult life Copy Share Image
“Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.” — Mark Twain Battle of the sexes Copy Share Image
I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point. — Mark Twain Coercion Copy Share Image
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does". — Mark Twain Apology Copy Share Image
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so."" — Mark Twain Anti religious Copy Share Image
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“All the memories in the world, good or bad, are not worth one slender hope for the future; and” — Mark Twain Hope Copy Share Image
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of… — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly. — Mark Twain Acting Copy Share Image
Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they… — Mark Twain Adulthood Copy Share Image
“Mark Twain describes how his friend Ralph Keeler introduced him at the start of a lecture: " 'I don't know anything about… — Mark Twain Friendship Copy Share Image
You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and… — Mark Twain Atheism Copy Share Image
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we… — Mark Twain Animal Copy Share Image
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage.… — Mark Twain Beverages Copy Share Image
“Expression, expression is the thing - in art. I do not care what it expresses, and I cannot most always sometimes tell,… — Mark Twain Art Copy Share Image
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable… — Mark Twain Getting ahead Copy Share Image
“The guide showed us a coffee-colored piece of sculpture which he said was considered to have come from the hand of Phidias,… — Mark Twain Nature 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
“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
... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it!… — Mark Twain Expression Copy Share Image
I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I… — Mark Twain Accidents 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
“The old one is tamer than it was, and can laugh and talk like the parrot, having learned this, no doubt, from… — Mark Twain Long ago Copy Share Image
Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created. — Mark Twain Good heart Copy Share Image
