Mark Twain Quotes (1103 Quotes)


    Some men worship rank, some men worship heroes, some men worship power, some men worship God, and over these ideals they dispute -- but they all worship money.

    We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

    A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

    Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

    The lack of money is the root of all evil.


    If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.


    It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray and see if I couldn't try to quit bein the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down, But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldnt they It werent no use to try and hide it from Him .... I knowed very well why they wouldnt come. It was because my heart warn't right it was because I warn't square it was because I was playin double. I was lettin on to give up sin, but way inside of me I was holdin on to the biggest one of all. I was tryin to make my mouth say I would do the right thing and the clean thing ... but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie. I found that out.

    A crowded police court docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty

    Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

    The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal

    Golden rule Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

    If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

    The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh

    Ill risk forty dollars that he can outjump an frog in Calaveras county.

    Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

    The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

    The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

    All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

    A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

    Let us endeavor to live so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry

    Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings Family-circle narratives and obscene stories

    Are you going to hang him anyhow - and try him afterward.

    If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

    To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

    Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.

    The Jews are members of the human race - worse I can say of no man

    The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades

    Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

    America is built on a tilt, and everything loose slides towards California.

    At bottom he Carlyle was probably fond of them the Americans, but he was always able to conceal it.

    We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we had ever invented human liberty.

    Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

    You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.

    It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy

    Cold If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd have frozen to death.

    Well, we can take you to meet Napoleon -- but he's shining the boots of the person who actually was the world's greatest military genius. He happens to have been a tinsmith from Pennsylvania who never had a chance to go to a military academy -- so he never even knew he was a great military genius. He was born with that capacity -- and only here in heaven do we actually know who these people are.

    The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.

    It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

    I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.

    I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

    Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

    It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

    The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

    Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

    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.

    Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

    Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions.

    You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

    Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.


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