Mark Twain Quotes
Be good and you will be lonesome.Mark Twain
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - A Christian.Mark Twain
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain
Few sinners are saved after the fiirst twenty minutes of a sermon.Mark Twain
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.Mark Twain
How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk spoiled.Mark Twain
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.Mark Twain
The billiard table is better than the doctor.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
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.Mark Twain
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - Either by themselves or by others.Mark Twain
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.Mark Twain
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.Mark Twain
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.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
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
I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.Mark Twain
Carlyle said, A lie cannot live; it shows he did not know how to tell them.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
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
Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.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
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.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
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.Mark Twain
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.Mark Twain
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.Mark Twain
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.Mark Twain
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.Mark Twain
Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.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
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.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
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.Mark Twain
