Mark Twain Quotes
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.Mark Twain
It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - - And less trouble. - Speech, 1906.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
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
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.Mark Twain
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler - - And less trouble.Mark Twain
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.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
A man with a new idea is a crank - - Until the idea succeeds.Mark Twain
Everything has its limit - - Iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906.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
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.Mark Twain
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.Mark Twain
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.Mark Twain
Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.Mark Twain
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.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
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.Mark Twain
Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination.Mark Twain
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.Mark Twain
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
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.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
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain
Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.Mark Twain
Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.Mark Twain
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.Mark Twain
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.Mark Twain
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.Mark Twain
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.Mark Twain
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.Mark Twain
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.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
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.Mark Twain
Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.Mark Twain
