Mark Twain Quotes
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.Mark Twain
Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.Mark Twain
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.Mark Twain
Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.Mark Twain
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.Mark Twain
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.Mark Twain
The rule is perfect in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.Mark Twain
It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.Mark Twain
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.Mark Twain
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.Mark Twain
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.Mark Twain
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.Mark Twain
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.Mark Twain
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.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
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.Mark Twain
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.Mark Twain
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.Mark Twain
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.Mark Twain
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.Mark Twain
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.Mark Twain
Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.Mark Twain
I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.Mark Twain
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.Mark Twain
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.Mark Twain
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.Mark Twain
Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.Mark Twain
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.Mark Twain
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.Mark Twain
All say, How hard it is that we have to die - - A strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.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
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.Mark Twain
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.Mark Twain
