Mark Twain Quotes
Few sinners are saved after the fiirst twenty minutes of a sermon.Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk, ruined.Mark Twain
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.Mark Twain
A man with a new idea is a crank - - Until the idea succeeds.Mark Twain
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.Mark Twain
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.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
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....Mark Twain
Everything has its limit - - Iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906.Mark Twain
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.Mark Twain
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.Mark Twain
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.Mark Twain
Be good and you will be lonesome.Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk spoiled.Mark Twain
A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.Mark Twain
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.Mark Twain
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.Mark Twain
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.Mark Twain
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.Mark Twain
Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.Mark Twain
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.Mark Twain
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.Mark Twain
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - - A christian.Mark Twain
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.Mark Twain
I am an old man and have a great many troubles, But most of them never happened.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
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.Mark Twain
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.Mark Twain
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.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
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.Mark Twain
Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, - - which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and - - watch that basket.Mark Twain
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.Mark Twain
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.Mark Twain
