Mark Twain Quotes

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity – another man’s, I mean.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.

I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.

Summer is the time when it is too hot to do the job that it was too cold to do last winter.

It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Children have but little charity for each other's defects.

Children and fools always speak the truth.

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to pr

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

Well, everybody does it that way, Huck.""Tom, I am not everybody.

They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.

During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business

For he did not seem to know any way to do a person a kindness but by killing him.

Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry.

I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

Be good and you will be lonesome.

If you think it ain’t dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way, by yourself, in the night, you try it once – you’ll see.

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.

Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.

Loose and forbear!

This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.

When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.

A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man.

That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain’t no disgrace.

The best of all lost arts is honesty

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells.