Mark Twain Quotes
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.Mark Twain
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.Mark Twain
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.Mark Twain
Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.Mark Twain
Be good and you will be lonesome.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
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.Mark Twain
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.Mark Twain
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.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
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in.Mark Twain
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk spoiled.Mark Twain
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.Mark Twain
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.Mark Twain
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.Mark Twain
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.Mark Twain
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.Mark Twain
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.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
I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.Mark Twain
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.Mark Twain
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.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
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.Mark Twain
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.Mark Twain
The billiard table is better than the doctor.Mark Twain
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.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
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
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.Mark Twain
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.Mark Twain
