Mark Twain Quotes
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good - Natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.Mark Twain
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.Mark Twain
Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.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
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.Mark Twain
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.Mark Twain
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.Mark Twain
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?Mark Twain
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.Mark Twain
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.Mark Twain
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.Mark Twain
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.Mark Twain
I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.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
Golf is a good walk spoiled.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
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.Mark Twain
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.Mark Twain
George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - He could not even lie.Mark Twain
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.Mark Twain
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler - - And less trouble.Mark Twain
When in doubt, tell the truth.Mark Twain
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.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
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.Mark Twain
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.Mark Twain
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.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
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
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself.Mark Twain
Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.Mark Twain
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.Mark Twain
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.Mark Twain
The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.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
