Mark Twain Quotes
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.Mark Twain
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.Mark Twain
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.Mark Twain
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.Mark Twain
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in.Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that blushes - - Or needs to.Mark Twain
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.Mark Twain
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.Mark Twain
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.Mark Twain
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.Mark Twain
All say, How hard it is that we have to die - - A strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.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
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.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
A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.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
How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.Mark Twain
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty - One, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.Mark Twain
It is easier to stay out than get out.Mark Twain
All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908.Mark Twain
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.Mark Twain
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.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
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.Mark Twain
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.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
Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.Mark Twain
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.Mark Twain
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.Mark Twain
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.Mark Twain
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.Mark Twain
Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.Mark Twain
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.Mark Twain
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.Mark Twain
