There is something fascinating about science. One gets such
wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling
investment of fact.
-- Mark Twain
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such
wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling
investment of fact.
-- Mark Twain
Substitute “damn” every time you're inclined to write
"very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be
just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain
“Wagner's music is better than it sounds.”
-- Mark Twain
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The
world owes you nothing. It was here first.
-- Mark Twain
“Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a
funeral? It is because we are not the person involved”
-- Mark Twain
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
-- Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is
sure.
-- Mark Twain
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-- Mark Twain, American Writer (1835-1910)
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humour itself is not joy
but sorrow.
-- Mark Twain, American Writer (1835-1910)
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.
This is the principle difference between a dog and a man.
-- Mark Twain
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed
in making those idiots understand their language.
-- Mark Twain
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
-- Mark Twain, American Writer (1835-1910)
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library
out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
-- Mark Twain
Let us so endeavour to live, that when we come to die, even the undertaker will
be sorry.
-- Mark Twain.
Man is the only animal that blushes... or needs to.
-- Mark Twain, American Writer (1835-1910)
Nothing so needs reforming as other peoples' habits.
-- Mark Twain
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in
the long run.
-- Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
“There is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.”
-- Mark Twain
“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.”
-- Mark Twain
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped
teething.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain
April 1
This is the day upon which we are reminged of what we are on the other three
hundred and sixty-four.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"--which is
but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention;" but the wise
man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and--WATCH THAT BASKET."
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
-- Mark Twain
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
-- Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-- Mark Twain
Consider well the proportions of things. It is better to be a young June-bug
than an old bird of paradise.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"