Mark Twain Quotes

You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus politics and a few other things. The history of everything.

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

Art is science in the flesh.

If there's anything I like better than honey and ketchup, it's baloney and whipped cream --- and we haven't got any!

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

We live ruins amid ruins.

I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

History teaches everything, even the future.

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

My appetite comes to me while eating.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

Art is far feebler than necessity.