Mark Twain Quotes
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.Mark Twain
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.Mark Twain
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.Mark Twain
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.Mark Twain
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.Mark Twain
Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.Mark Twain
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.Mark Twain
George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - He could not even lie.Mark Twain
I have spent most of my time worrying about thigs that have never happened.Mark Twain
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.Mark Twain
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.Mark Twain
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.Mark Twain
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.Mark Twain
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.Mark Twain
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.Mark Twain
A man with a new idea is a crank - - Until the idea succeeds.Mark Twain
Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, - - which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and - - watch that basket.Mark Twain
Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.Mark Twain
When in doubt, tell the truth.Mark Twain
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.Mark Twain
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.Mark Twain
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.Mark Twain
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - A Christian.Mark Twain
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.Mark Twain
In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.Mark Twain
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.Mark Twain
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.Mark Twain
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.Mark Twain
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.Mark Twain
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.Mark Twain
It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.Mark Twain
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.Mark Twain
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.Mark Twain
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.Mark Twain
Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.Mark Twain
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.Mark Twain
