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Mark Twain
Quotes by Mark Twain
Quotes by Mark Twain
“I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.”
Mark Twain
“I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.”
Mark Twain
“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.”
Mark Twain
“Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.”
Mark Twain
“If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.”
Mark Twain
“If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.”
Mark Twain
“If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.”
Mark Twain
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain
“It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”
Mark Twain
“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”
Mark Twain
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.”
Mark Twain
“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
Mark Twain
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
Mark Twain
“It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.”
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
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
Mark Twain
“It is easier to stay out than get out.”
Mark Twain
“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”
Mark Twain
“It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.”
Mark Twain
“It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.”
Mark Twain
“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”
Mark Twain
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
Mark Twain
“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”
Mark Twain
“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
Mark Twain
“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.”
Mark Twain
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
Mark Twain
“Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.”
Mark Twain
“Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.”
Mark Twain
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
“Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”
Mark Twain
