Mark TwainA classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. ✨ Following the Equator (1897) ch. 27481Reading
Mark TwainHumor is tragedy plus time.391HumorTime
Mark TwainI've never let my school interfere with my education. ✨ Attributed in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1946425Reading
Mark TwainAt noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen. ✨ Mark Twain (2008). Roughi… ▶371Reading
Mark TwainNothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size. ✨ Mark Twa… ▶371Politics
Mark TwainThe humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Humo… ▶371HumorTruth
Mark TwainBetween us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.117, Cour… ▶371Reading
Mark TwainWe all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.375, Courier Co… ▶371Reading
Mark TwainMethuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at… ▶371LifeReadingTime
Mark TwainLet your joy be unconfined!372Life
Mark TwainThe cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.372Life
Mark TwainHow easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! ✨ Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2. Book by Mark Twain (p. 302), 2013.361HumanityReading
Mark TwainThe solution to our water problems is more rain.372Politics
Mark TwainA marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life. ✨ Mark Twain (1992). Mark Twai… ▶372Life
Mark TwainWe need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.372Humanity
Mark TwainShe remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolu… ▶372LifeLoveReading
Mark TwainGenius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.141, Courier Corpora… ▶361LifeReading
Mark TwainYou can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.' ✨ Mark Tw… ▶372Humanity
Mark TwainGreat people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.361Humanity
Mark TwainNever let the truth get in the way of a good story.361Truth
Mark TwainThe pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever f… ▶361Reading
Mark TwainI would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable. ✨ Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). The Wit and Wisdom of Mar… ▶372DeathPhilosophy
Mark TwainBy common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved. ✨ Mark Twain (2016). What I… ▶361Love
Mark TwainIf work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.372Thought
Mark TwainThe secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first361Humanity
Mark TwainI am not an economist. I am an honest man!372Truth
Mark TwainAll Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. ✨ Mark Twain (1960). Mark Twain a… ▶372LifeLovePolitics
Mark TwainEvery time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. ✨ Mark Twain (2006). Mark Twain Speaking, p.362, University of Iowa Press351Time
Mark TwainThe man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.373Hope
Mark TwainTo say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.63, Courier Corporation373Reading