Mark Twain Quotes
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.Mark Twain
Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.Mark Twain
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.Mark Twain
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.Mark Twain
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.Mark Twain
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.Mark Twain
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.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
Few sinners are saved after the fiirst twenty minutes of a sermon.Mark Twain
We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.Mark Twain
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.Mark Twain
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - - A christian.Mark Twain
We all have thoughts that would shame the devil.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
I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.Mark Twain
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.Mark Twain
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - And stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove - Lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove - Lid again - And that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.Mark Twain
I have spent most of my time worrying about thigs that have never happened.Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.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
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.Mark Twain
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.Mark Twain
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.Mark Twain
I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.Mark Twain
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.Mark Twain
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.Mark Twain
Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.Mark Twain
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.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. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.Mark Twain
I am an old man and have a great many troubles, But most of them never happened.Mark Twain
There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.Mark Twain
I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.Mark Twain
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.Mark Twain
