“ The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say. Mark Twain
“ He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. Mark Twain
“ Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to he… Mark Twain
“ The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the musicia… Mark Twain
“ Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. Mark Twain
“ What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so. Mark Twain
“ The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries. Mark Twain
“ A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken p… Mark Twain
“ Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't. Mark Twain
“ Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegeta… Mark Twain
“ Mary Jane she set at the head of the table, with Susan alongside of her, and said how bad the biscuits was, and how mean the preserves was, and how ornery and tough the fried chickens was—and all that… Mark Twain
“ We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility. Mark Twain
“ Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Conside… Mark Twain
“ Perfect grammar--persistent, continuous, sustained--is the fourth dimension, so to speak: many have sought it, but none has found it. Mark Twain
“ We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of the past, and s… Mark Twain
“ You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do. Mark Twain
