Mark Twain Quotes
A man is accepted into church for what he believes - - And turned out for what he knows.Mark Twain
The holy passion of Friendship is 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
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
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.Mark Twain
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.Mark Twain
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.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
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
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.Mark Twain
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.Mark Twain
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.Mark Twain
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.Mark Twain
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.Mark Twain
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.Mark Twain
I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.Mark Twain
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.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
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.Mark Twain
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.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
I am an old man and have a great many troubles, But most of them never happened.Mark Twain
Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.Mark Twain
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow - Mindedness.Mark Twain
A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.Mark Twain
We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.Mark Twain
The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.Mark Twain
A man with a new idea is a crank - - Until the idea succeeds.Mark Twain
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.Mark Twain
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk, ruined.Mark Twain
There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.Mark Twain
I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots.Mark Twain
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.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.Mark Twain
I never let schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.Mark Twain
