Mark Twain Quotes
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.Mark Twain
The holy passion of Friendship is of 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
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
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.Mark Twain
I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it.Mark Twain
Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.Mark Twain
A man with a new idea is a crank - - Until the idea succeeds.Mark Twain
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.Mark Twain
October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.Mark Twain
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.Mark Twain
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.Mark Twain
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.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
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.Mark Twain
Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.Mark Twain
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.Mark Twain
I never let schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.Mark Twain
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.Mark Twain
We all have thoughts that would shame the devil.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
I have spent most of my time worrying about thigs that have never happened.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
I can live two months on a good compliment.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
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
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.Mark Twain
After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.Mark Twain
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - A Christian.Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.Mark Twain
Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.Mark Twain
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - Either by themselves or by others.Mark Twain
