Mark Twain Quotes
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.Mark Twain
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.Mark Twain
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.Mark Twain
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.Mark Twain
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.Mark Twain
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.Mark Twain
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.Mark Twain
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.Mark Twain
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.Mark Twain
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.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
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.Mark Twain
Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.Mark Twain
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.Mark Twain
If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.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
If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man.Mark Twain
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.Mark Twain
The rule is perfect in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.Mark Twain
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.Mark Twain
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.Mark Twain
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.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
Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.Mark Twain
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.Mark Twain
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.Mark Twain
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.Mark Twain
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.Mark Twain
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - - A christian.Mark Twain
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.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
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.Mark Twain
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.Mark Twain
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.Mark Twain
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.Mark Twain
