Mark Twain Quotes
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.Mark Twain
Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.Mark Twain
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself.Mark Twain
Principles have no real force except when one is well - Fed.Mark Twain
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.Mark Twain
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you.Mark Twain
It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - - And less trouble. - Speech, 1906.Mark Twain
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - A Christian.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
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
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
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.Mark Twain
I have spent most of my time worrying about thigs that have never happened.Mark Twain
At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.Mark Twain
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.Mark Twain
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.Mark Twain
On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.Mark Twain
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.Mark Twain
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.Mark Twain
When in doubt, tell the truth.Mark Twain
Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.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
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler - - And less trouble.Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.Mark Twain
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.Mark Twain
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.Mark Twain
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.Mark Twain
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?Mark Twain
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.Mark Twain
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.Mark Twain
I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.Mark Twain
The rule is perfect in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.Mark Twain
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.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
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.Mark Twain
