Mark Twain Quotes
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.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
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.Mark Twain
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.Mark Twain
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.Mark Twain
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.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
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.Mark Twain
A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.Mark Twain
Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.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
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.Mark Twain
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.Mark Twain
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.Mark Twain
Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself.Mark Twain
Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.Mark Twain
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.Mark Twain
Be good and you will be lonesome.Mark Twain
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.Mark Twain
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.Mark Twain
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.Mark Twain
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.Mark Twain
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.Mark Twain
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.Mark Twain
A man with a new idea is a crank - - Until the idea succeeds.Mark Twain
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler - - And less trouble.Mark Twain
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.Mark Twain
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.Mark Twain
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.Mark Twain
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.Mark Twain
