Mark Twain Quotes
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.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
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty - Four.Mark Twain
At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.Mark Twain
The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.Mark Twain
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.Mark Twain
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.Mark Twain
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in.Mark Twain
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.Mark Twain
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good - Natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.Mark Twain
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.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
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.Mark Twain
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.Mark Twain
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.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
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
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.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.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 did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it.Mark Twain
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.Mark Twain
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.Mark Twain
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
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.Mark Twain
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.Mark Twain
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.Mark Twain
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.Mark Twain
I can live two months on a good compliment.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
There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.Mark Twain
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.Mark Twain
