Quotes from Mark Twain

Well, I couldn't see no gain in going wherein she become going, so I made up my thoughts I wouldn't try for it.  But I in no way said so, because it would handiest make trouble, and wouldn't do no exact.

and as we lay and smoked the pipe of peace and compared all this luxury with the years of tiresome city life that had gone before it, we felt that there was only one complete and satisfying happiness in the world, and we had found it.

It was now just dawn; and as we stretched our cramped legs full length on the mail sacks, and gazed out through the windows across the wide wastes of greensward clad in cool, powdery mist, to where there was an expectant look in the eastern horizon, our perfect enjoyment took the form of a tranquil and contented ecstasy.

How fairylike does everything appear to her enchanted vision!

Let us live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.

To this end it furnishes them an abundance of Catholic priests to teach them to be docile and obedient, and to be diligent in acquiring ignorance about things here below, and knowledge about the kingdom of heaven

It was a new business to me, and I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says: "Yes; the little ones does.

A visitor to Mark Twain's house in Hartford observed mountains of books stacked on the floor. The author apologized for the disorder. You see, he lamented, It is so very difficult to borrow shelves.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned among the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off

Old Man: The impulse which moves a person to do things - The only impulse that ever moves a person to do things Young Man: The only one! Is there but one? O.M. That is all Y.M. Well, certainly that is a strange doctrine. What is the sole impulse that ever moves a person to do a thing? O.M. The impulse to CONTENT HIS OWN SPIRIT - the NECESSITY of contenting his own spirit and WINNING ITS APPROVAL.

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So the tiresome minutes and decades of minutes dragged away, until at last our tense forms filmed over with a dulled consciousness

People were thicker than bees, in those narrow streets, and the men were dressed in all the outrageous, outlandish, idolatrous, extravagant, thunder-and-lightning costumes that ever a tailor with the delirium tremens and seven devils could conceive of. There

The average human being is a perverse creature; and when he isn't that, he is a practical joker.

music--music to make one drunk with pleasure, music to make one take scrip and staff and beg his way round the globe to hear it.

Yes, one might say that her motto was "Work! stick to it; keep on working!" for in war she never knew what indolence was. And whoever will take that motto and live by it will likely to succeed. There's many a way to win in this world, but none of them is worth much without good hard work back out of it.

men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This

The English youth's face simply showed a lively surprise, but nothing more. He went swinging along valleyward again, as if he did not know he had just swindled a coroner

You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are

It is an imposing monarch of the forest in exquisite miniature, is the "sage-brush." Its foliage is a grayish green, and gives that tint to desert and mountain. It smells like our domestic sage, and "sage-tea" made from it tastes like the sage-tea which all boys are so well acquainted with. The sage-brush is a singularly hardy plant, and grows right in the midst of deep sand, and among barren rocks, where nothing else in the vegetable world

Travel is fatal to prejudice,bigotry and narrow-mindedness.

The simple fact that he could, took the desire away, and the charm of it

we slept, if one might call such a condition by so strong a name—for it was a sleep set with a hair-trigger.

I had better water than that, and ran it lower down; started out from the false point—mark twain—raised the second reef abreast the big snag in the bend, and had quarter less twain.