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Mark Twain
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This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS ... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t...
DEYTH BANGER Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
VAL KILMER I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get...
ROY HARPER I am drawn to Tom Sawyer Island because a tribute to Mark Twain would not be out of place in a theme...
SARAH VOWELL I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,
BILL BRADLEY Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of par...
MARK TWAIN I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS Confound it, it's foolish, Tom
MARK TWAIN Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That's SHIT!
How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
JACKSON BROWNE In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the c...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Mark Twain.
FRIENDS Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
NICK FLYNN I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airpo...
ROMAN COPPOLA O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was too young that time to value her,
But now I know her. If she be a traitor,
Why, so ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know...
MAYA ANGELOU As far as my meet, it was very tough, mentally straining but also physically. I was able to work thr...
BARBIE VINEY I, Mark Twain being of sound mind, have spent everything
MARK TWAIN Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
GEORGE ORWELL As far as accessories are concerned, I think it is always best to be as minimalist as possible.
ALICE TEMPERLEY At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not...
PATRICK MOORE In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the c...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.
EDWARD BLAKE As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and p...
KID ROCK I'm really totally convinced, and I can't predict the time frame, but someday these cartoonists, lik...
BRIAN WALKER Mark Twain: A Life
RON POWERS If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.
PETER FALK I was a maniac as a teenager; I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I was crazy.
BRENDON URIE I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burd...
BERNHARD SCHLINK As far I'm working on The life Of one Kid 7... continue!
DEYTH BANGER The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Mark Twain and I are in the same position. We have put things in such a way as to make people, who w...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW In [The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain] proves to his own grim satisfaction, and to mine as ...
KURT VONNEGUT Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of b...
PETE ROSE I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly pu...
DAVID BLAINE JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?
ORLANDO: Yes, just.
JAQUES: I do not lik...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here comes Monseiur Le Beau.
Rosalind: With his mouth full of news.
Celia: Which he will p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we k...
STEVE JOBS Mark Twain cannot be defined.
HAL HOLBROOK This is the kind of platform we've been looking for a long time. Libraries digitize their stuff and ...
DANIEL GREENSTEIN This is the kind of platform we've been looking for a long time, ... Libraries digitize their stuff ...
DANIEL GREENSTEIN I like the idea of the audience absorbing the language and getting to understand it as they journey ...
DAVID MACKENZIE Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking ab...
ANNE SEXTON As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON It didn't take me very long (after arriving on campus) because they talk to us about it. Well, they ...
MATT BRAEUER To find that things are never what they seem no matter what way you look at it is an eye opener inde...
GARY F EVANS... I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Gu...
FRANK BLACK The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
MANDY PATINKIN I shouldn't be talking about the details that I'm in negotiations with the White House and the (Capi...
MARGARET SPELLINGS As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my r...
KURT HUBER I shouldn´t be talking about the details that I´m in negotiations with the White House and the (Ca...
MARGARET SPELLINGS There's no doubt in my mind I understand basketball as well as anybody. My assistants and I have a g...
DAMON BAILEY Being a third time national champion is really an awesome feat. I am really, really proud that I cou...
JOHNNY WEIR I sign autographs and try to be as nice to people as possible, and I do pretty well with that. I und...
DUSTIN JOHNSON Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no lo...
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.
RUTH RENDELL Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you...
MARK TWAIN I read from Mark Twain's lips one or two of his good stories. He has his own way of thinking, saying...
HELEN KELLER His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the wh...
MARK TWAIN Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]
GERARD WAY I wish Merry was here," he heard himself saying, and quick thoughts raced through his mind, even as ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that...
J. D. HAYWORTH Mark it. The success of people may excite you. But the challenges they went through to achieve it wi...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that ...
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect...
CRISS JAMI I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the ...
MARTIN LANDAU It was tough to cope with the pressure of having to talk about menstruation, but now with 'Newsw...
RUPI KAUR But I can please God
CRAIG GROESCHEL We all have ups and downs in our career, and as an actor going through a rough patch, all I can do i...
UDAY KIRAN I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS I want to tell few things, I like the truth in all faces. why??
It's the truth one road and tha...
DEYTH BANGER I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not ...
HENRY ADAMS It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so r...
MARK TWAIN What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
THOMAS MORE By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it take...
JANET FLANNER By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes...
JANET FLANNER I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark ...
JEFF NICHOLS After that we didn't get as close to an interpreter. We didn't want to.
CAPT. PAUL LYON I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And i...
IAN MCKELLEN He's good with everybody, ... He can talk to the CEO as well as he can talk to the mechanic.
DREW BROWN Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.
BOB NEWHART I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen throug...
PIERCE BROSNAN I like to play around with people who don't know me. Often I'm talking to people through my ...
MARLEE MATLIN As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like ...
CALVIN TRILLIN I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Lord take me as I am just the way I am. Set my soul ablaze, never quench the flame
VENES The best you can say is that the German economy remains in dire straits and under duress and as far ...
DAVID BROWN People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals w...
CLAUDIA BLACK Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say th...
PAUL THEROUX I always try and do my best and put out the best and find the best in me, as well. But I'm not t...
DAVID FERRER As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.
DONALD TRUMP As far as I can see, the best writers in the last two hundred years have been Whitman, Rilke, Proust...
JESSE BALL
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
MARK TWAIN My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
MARK TWAIN It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha...
MARK TWAIN The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
MARK TWAIN India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ...
MARK TWAIN Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
MARK TWAIN I never let schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
MARK TWAIN Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
MARK TWAIN The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed rig...
MARK TWAIN There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
MARK TWAIN In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
MARK TWAIN Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here firs...
MARK TWAIN But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one...
MARK TWAIN The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
MARK TWAIN The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
MARK TWAIN Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of ti...
MARK TWAIN It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
MARK TWAIN The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
MARK TWAIN The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
MARK TWAIN Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
MARK TWAIN Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
MARK TWAIN There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
MARK TWAIN Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
MARK TWAIN Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside...
MARK TWAIN Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
MARK TWAIN I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
MARK TWAIN The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAIN All generalizations are false, including this one.
MARK TWAIN 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba...
MARK TWAIN The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
MARK TWAIN If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
MARK TWAIN What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...
MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...
MARK TWAIN When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu...
MARK TWAIN The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly...
MARK TWAIN By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
MARK TWAIN So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
MARK TWAIN The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes...
MARK TWAIN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w...
MARK TWAIN The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff...
MARK TWAIN Say the report is exaggerated.
MARK TWAIN A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ...
MARK TWAIN To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
MARK TWAIN I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ...
MARK TWAIN A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t...
MARK TWAIN Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st...
MARK TWAIN Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi...
MARK TWAIN Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to...
MARK TWAIN We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ...
MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people...
MARK TWAIN Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find...
MARK TWAIN Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood...
MARK TWAIN As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
MARK TWAIN I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshol...
MARK TWAIN Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than...
MARK TWAIN The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without burst...
MARK TWAIN When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
MARK TWAIN All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
MARK TWAIN The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...
MARK TWAIN To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ...
MARK TWAIN Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
MARK TWAIN It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal...
MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired
MARK TWAIN It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
MARK TWAIN Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting...
MARK TWAIN To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
MARK TWAIN Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
MARK TWAIN The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse...
MARK TWAIN Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would ...
MARK TWAIN There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
MARK TWAIN The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things tha...
MARK TWAIN Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled
MARK TWAIN Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"
MARK TWAIN Distance lends enchantment to the view
MARK TWAIN Be good and you will be lonesome.
MARK TWAIN Chastity - you can carry it too far
MARK TWAIN To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
MARK TWAIN Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it...
MARK TWAIN Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
MARK TWAIN When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
MARK TWAIN There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many...
MARK TWAIN Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
MARK TWAIN I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and lookin...
MARK TWAIN Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would...
MARK TWAIN Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati...
MARK TWAIN Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material...
MARK TWAIN Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no...
MARK TWAIN There is a great deal of human nature in people.
MARK TWAIN If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
MARK TWAIN There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
MARK TWAIN The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monot...
MARK TWAIN Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat...
MARK TWAIN It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts th...
MARK TWAIN Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement,...
MARK TWAIN Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of t...
MARK TWAIN Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
MARK TWAIN We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
MARK TWAIN O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover th...
MARK TWAIN A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
MARK TWAIN Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so,...
MARK TWAIN There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to...
MARK TWAIN I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treas...
MARK TWAIN Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich...
MARK TWAIN Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide i...
MARK TWAIN Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us...
MARK TWAIN Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
MARK TWAIN Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
MARK TWAIN I do not like work even when someone else does it.
MARK TWAIN Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not oblig...
MARK TWAIN Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
MARK TWAIN Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
MARK TWAIN No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
MARK TWAIN We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether th...
MARK TWAIN Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True ...
MARK TWAIN When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
MARK TWAIN Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
MARK TWAIN Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
MARK TWAIN We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the hum...
MARK TWAIN There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
MARK TWAIN I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he...
MARK TWAIN There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were...
MARK TWAIN People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
MARK TWAIN My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table ...
MARK TWAIN When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a te...
MARK TWAIN In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
MARK TWAIN Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
MARK TWAIN The lack of money is the root of all evils.
MARK TWAIN His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
MARK TWAIN Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures...
MARK TWAIN All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. ...
MARK TWAIN Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Traini...
MARK TWAIN We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only m...
MARK TWAIN There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
MARK TWAIN It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech...
MARK TWAIN There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
MARK TWAIN War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has no...
MARK TWAIN There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhe...
MARK TWAIN To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his...
MARK TWAIN One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
MARK TWAIN A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
MARK TWAIN A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
MARK TWAIN I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, b...
MARK TWAIN The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
MARK TWAIN A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversati...
MARK TWAIN Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expe...
MARK TWAIN Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million.
MARK TWAIN It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
MARK TWAIN Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part cowar...
MARK TWAIN Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself
MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro...
MARK TWAIN Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
MARK TWAIN It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
MARK TWAIN Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
MARK TWAIN There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it ...
MARK TWAIN I've never let my school interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in al...
MARK TWAIN Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
MARK TWAIN If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal di...
MARK TWAIN A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going...
MARK TWAIN Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiment...
MARK TWAIN Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the ca...
MARK TWAIN If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the r...
MARK TWAIN The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a...
MARK TWAIN Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its...
MARK TWAIN The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
MARK TWAIN Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the reall...
MARK TWAIN If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
MARK TWAIN ′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
MARK TWAIN I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
MARK TWAIN Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Trut...
MARK TWAIN Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
MARK TWAIN A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
MARK TWAIN All right, then, I'll go to hell.
MARK TWAIN The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
MARK TWAIN Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
MARK TWAIN If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
MARK TWAIN To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it ...
MARK TWAIN Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
MARK TWAIN Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAIN Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
MARK TWAIN I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
MARK TWAIN