Mark Twain

I can’t do no literary work for the rest of this year because I’m meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

Mark Twain

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Mark Twain

I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.

Mark Twain

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

Mark Twain

I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err’s of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.

Mark Twain

I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

I could forgive the boy, now, if he’d committed a million sins!

Mark Twain

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

Mark Twain

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

Mark Twain

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

Mark Twain