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Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. — Shania Twain

Yes, a genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is five hundred years away easier than he can a thing that's only five hundred seconds off. — Mark Twain

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you. — Shania Twain

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing — Mark Twain

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do. — Mark Twain

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time. — Mark Twain

I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return — Mark Twain

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking? — Mark Twain

Man - a figment of God's imagination. — Mark Twain

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs. — Mark Twain

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. — Mark Twain

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries. — Mark Twain

If you're looking for friends when you need them ... it's too late. — Mark Twain

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

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first. — Mark Twain

Careful, there's man love and there's business love, and never the twain shall meet. — Mark Corrigan

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom. — Mark Twain

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you — Mark Twain

Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it. — Mark Twain

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground. — Mark Twain

This job's a pain-it's so mundane It sure don't stimulate my brain. — Shania Twain

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly. — Mark Twain

thread, but it's black. — Mark Twain

In truth I care little about any party's politics-the man behind it is the important thing. — Mark Twain

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing. — Mark Twain

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined. — Mark Twain

A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man. — Mark Twain

I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing. — Shania Twain

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect. — Mark Twain

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. — Mark Twain

The window went up, a maid-servant's discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr's remains! — Mark Twain

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. — Mark Twain

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 does not hear her. — Mark Twain

I'm pushing 60 years of age ... and that's enough exercise for me. — Mark Twain

To the rear, sir - he's lost his leg! — Mark Twain

It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head. — Mark Twain

Well, I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain 'Come on Over' CD and that's about it. — Julianne Hough

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed. — Mark Twain

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right — Mark Twain

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that. — Mark Twain

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes. — Mark Twain

There's no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy. — Mark Twain

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar. — Mark Twain

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. — Mark Twain

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. — Mark Twain

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming. — Shania Twain

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can. — Mark Twain

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. — Mark Twain

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. — Mark Twain

When a prisoner of style escapes, it's called an evasion. — Mark Twain

There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it. — Mark Twain

The truth is, a person's memory has no more sense that his conscience, and no appreciation whatever of values and proportions. — Mark Twain

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs. — Shania Twain

Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow. — Mark Twain

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself? — Mark Twain

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it. — Mark Twain

What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? — Mark Twain

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it. — Mark Twain

Just because you're taught that something's right and everyone believes it's right, it don't make it right. — Mark Twain

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think? — Mark Twain

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right. — Mark Twain

When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama. — Mark Twain

My life revolves around my child's routine. — Shania Twain

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't. — Mark Twain

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge. — Mark Twain

This is Huck Finn, a child of mine of shady reputation. Be good to him for his parent's sake. — Mark Twain

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork. — Mark Twain

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so. — Mark Twain

Mark Twain, the thinking man's Colonel Sanders, reputedly said, America is New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Everywhere else is Cleveland. — Russell Brand

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. — Mark Twain

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare. — Mark Twain

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. — Mark Twain

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage — Mark Twain

When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma. — Mark Twain

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. — Mark Twain

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god. — Mark Twain

When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of? — Shania Twain

It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true. — Mark Twain

It's not the good that die young, it's the lucky. — Mark Twain

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes. — Mark Twain

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch. — Mark Twain

It's easy to endure adversity
if it happens to someone else. — Mark Twain

A young mark twain on the make: I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp. — H.W. Brands

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are. — Mark Twain

To be busy is man's only happiness. — Mark Twain

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like. — Mark Twain

History may not repeat itself," in Mark Twain's wise formulation, "but it rhymes. — Adam Smith

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends. — Mark Twain

you are going to find out the facts of a thing, what's the sense in guessing out what ain't the facts and wasting ammunition? — Mark Twain

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's. — Mark Twain

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. — Mark Twain

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy. — Mark Twain

When the world wants too much
And it feels cold and out of touch
It's a beautiful place
When you kiss my face
from The Woman In Me — Shania Twain

Oh, anybody can run a tick down that don't belong to them. I'm satisfied with it. It's a good enough tick for me." "Sho, there's — Mark Twain

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. — Mark Twain

Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one. — Mark Twain

Children have but little charity for each other's defects. — Mark Twain

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. — Mark Twain

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others. — Mark Twain

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. — Mark Twain