Mark Twain Quotes
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.Mark Twain
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.Mark Twain
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.Mark Twain
Few sinners are saved after the fiirst twenty minutes of a sermon.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
Principles have no real force except when one is well - Fed.Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.Mark Twain
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.Mark Twain
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.Mark Twain
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.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
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
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - A Christian.Mark Twain
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.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
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.Mark Twain
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.Mark Twain
On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.Mark Twain
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.Mark Twain
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.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
Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.Mark Twain
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.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
Golf is a good walk spoiled.Mark Twain
It is easier to stay out than get out.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
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.Mark Twain
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.Mark Twain
Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.Mark Twain
If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.Mark Twain
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.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
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.Mark Twain
There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.Mark Twain
