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Mark Twain
All say, `How...
All say, `How hard it is to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to...
After a few...
After a few months' acquaintance with European coffee, one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to...
Denial ain't just...
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Source: In
Are you going...
Are you going to hang him anyhow - and try him afterward?
Source: Innocents at...
All kings is...
All kings is mostly rapscallions.
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Ch....
All scenery in...
All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.
Source:...
At bottom he...
At bottom he [Carlyle] was probably fond of them [the Americans], but he was always able to conceal...
Each person is...
Each person is born to one possession which out values all his others -- his last breath.
By law of...
By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not...
All say, 'How...
All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to...
Annihilation has no...
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -- a hundred million years --...
Barring that natural...
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest...
Fiction is obliged...
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Source:
-- Mark...
Civilization is a...
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Source:...
Both marriage and...
Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures...
Biographies are but...
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be...
Be good and...
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Source: Following the Equator, caption for...
Fortune knocks at...
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and...
Damn the subjunctive....
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
Source: In
By common consent...
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men,...