Mark Twain Quotes
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
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.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
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.Mark Twain
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.Mark Twain
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - A Christian.Mark Twain
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.Mark Twain
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.Mark Twain
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.Mark Twain
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.Mark Twain
I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.Mark Twain
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.Mark Twain
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.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
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
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.Mark Twain
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.Mark Twain
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.Mark Twain
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.Mark Twain
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....Mark Twain
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.Mark Twain
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.Mark Twain
It is easier to stay out than get out.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
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.Mark Twain
Carlyle said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.Mark Twain
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.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
Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.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
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.Mark Twain
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.Mark Twain
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.Mark Twain
