Mark Twain Quotes
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.Mark Twain
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.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
Be good and you will be lonesome.Mark Twain
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.Mark Twain
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty - Four.Mark Twain
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.Mark Twain
I can live two months on a good compliment.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
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.Mark Twain
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.Mark Twain
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.Mark Twain
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.Mark Twain
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.Mark Twain
How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.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
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in.Mark Twain
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.Mark Twain
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.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
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.Mark Twain
I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots.Mark Twain
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.Mark Twain
Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.Mark Twain
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty - One, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.Mark Twain
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk, ruined.Mark Twain
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty - One, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.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
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.Mark Twain
Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.Mark Twain
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.Mark Twain
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.Mark Twain
