Mark Twain Quotes
Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.Mark Twain
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.Mark Twain
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.Mark Twain
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.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
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.Mark Twain
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.Mark Twain
I can live two months on a good compliment.Mark Twain
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.Mark Twain
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....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
A man is accepted into church for what he believes - - And turned out for what he knows.Mark Twain
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.Mark Twain
Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.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
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty - Four.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
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.Mark Twain
Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.Mark Twain
After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.Mark Twain
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.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 has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.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
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.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
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.Mark Twain
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.Mark Twain
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - - And stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - - And that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.Mark Twain
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.Mark Twain
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.Mark Twain
I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.Mark Twain
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.Mark Twain
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.Mark Twain
