Mark Twain Quotes
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.Mark Twain
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.Mark Twain
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in.Mark Twain
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?Mark Twain
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.Mark Twain
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.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
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.Mark Twain
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - - A christian.Mark Twain
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.Mark Twain
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler - - And less trouble.Mark Twain
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.Mark Twain
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.Mark Twain
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.Mark Twain
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.Mark Twain
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.Mark Twain
Be good and you will be lonesome.Mark Twain
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.Mark Twain
The rule is perfect in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that blushes - - Or needs to.Mark Twain
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.Mark Twain
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.Mark Twain
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.Mark Twain
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - Either by themselves or by others.Mark Twain
A man with a new idea is a crank - - Until the idea succeeds.Mark Twain
Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.Mark Twain
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.Mark Twain
I have spent most of my time worrying about thigs that have never happened.Mark Twain
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.Mark Twain
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.Mark Twain
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.Mark Twain
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.Mark Twain
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.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
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.Mark Twain
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.Mark Twain
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.Mark Twain
