Mark Twain Quotes
When in doubt, tell the truth.Mark Twain
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good - Natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.Mark Twain
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.Mark Twain
Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.Mark Twain
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.Mark Twain
Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.Mark Twain
Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.Mark Twain
I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots.Mark Twain
I can live two months on a good compliment.Mark Twain
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.Mark Twain
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.Mark Twain
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow - Mindedness.Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.Mark Twain
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....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
A man with a new idea is a crank - - Until the idea succeeds.Mark Twain
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.Mark Twain
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.Mark Twain
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.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
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
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.Mark Twain
I am an old man and have a great many troubles, But most of them 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
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.Mark Twain
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.Mark Twain
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.Mark Twain
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.Mark Twain
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.Mark Twain
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.Mark Twain
The billiard table is better than the doctor.Mark Twain
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.Mark Twain
The rule is perfect in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.Mark Twain
Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.Mark Twain
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.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
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.Mark Twain
